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</div><div class='column'><h5>Contributing Researchers</h5>
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-<li>Berit Gilma</li>
<li>Beth (aka Ms. Celeb)</li>
+<li>Berit Gilma</li>
<li>Mathana Stender</li>
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</div><div class='column'><h5>Code and Libraries</h5>
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<li><a href="/about/attribution/">Attribution</a></li>
<li><a href="/about/legal/">Legal / Privacy</a></li>
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-</section><p>Since launching MegaPixels in April 2019, several of the datasets mentioned have disappeared and one surveillance workshop was canceled. Below is a list of responses, reactions, and press:</p>
+</section><p>Since launching MegaPixels in April 2019, several of the datasets mentioned have disappeared and one surveillance workshop was canceled (then uncanceled).B elow is a timeline of events, responses, reactions, and press:</p>
<h5>June 2019</h5>
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+<li>June 24: Les Echos (FR) writes about MS Celeb dataset and <a href="https://www.lesechos.fr/tech-medias/intelligence-artificielle/le-mariage-explosif-de-nos-donnees-et-de-lia-1031813">Le mariage explosif de nos données et de l'IA</a> (The explosive combination of our data and AI)</li>
+<li>June 22: La Stamp (Italy) <a href="https://www.lastampa.it/2019/06/22/tecnologia/microsoft-ha-cancellato-il-suo-database-per-il-riconoscimento-facciale-PWwLGmpO1fKQdykMZVBd9H/pagina.html">writes about Microsoft's removal of the MS Celeb dataset</a></li>
+<li>June 15: De Tijd (Belgium) <a href="https://www.tijd.be/dossier/legrandinconnu/brainwash/10136670.html">writes about Brainwash head dataset</a></li>
+<li>June 13: <a href="https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2019/06/duke-university-video-analysis-research-at-duke-carlo-tomasi">Creator of Duke MTMC dataset apologizes to students recorded for surveillance research</a> to student body and university: "I take full responsibility for my mistakes, and I apologize to all people who were recorded and to Duke for their consequences"</li>
+<li>Jun 12: Duke Chronicle, Duke University's student paper, investigates Duke MTMC dataset, confirms it violated IRB: <a href="https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2019/06/duke-university-facial-recognition-data-set-study-surveillance-video-students-china-uyghur">"A Duke study recorded thousands of students’ faces. Now they’re being used all over the world"</a></li>
<li>June 7: Additional coverage of FT's story by <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48555149">BBC</a>, <a href="https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/microsoft-gesichtserkennung-datenbank-mit-zehn-millionen-fotos-geloescht-a-1271221.html">Spiegel.de</a>, <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/microsoft-quietly-deletes-largest-public-face-recognition-data-set-1.3916825">IrishTimes</a>, and <a href="https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-quietly-pulls-its-database-of-100-000-faces-u-1835296212">Gizmodo</a></li>
<li>June 6: Financial Times covers the abrupt disappearance of four facial recognition datasets: <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/7d3e0d6a-87a0-11e9-a028-86cea8523dc2">Microsoft quietly deletes largest public face recognition data set</a> by Madhumita Murgia</li>
<li>June 2: A person tracking surveillance workshop at CVPR (<a href="https://reid-mct.github.io/2019/">reid-mct.github.io/2019</a>) has been canceled due to the <a href="/datasets/duke_mtmc">Duke MTMC dataset</a> no longer being available: "Due to some unforeseen circumstances, the test data has not been available. The multi-target multi-camera tracking and person re-identification challenge is canceled. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused."</li>