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diff --git a/site/content/pages/about/index.md b/site/content/pages/about/index.md index deb4c0e7..9c66fbc4 100644 --- a/site/content/pages/about/index.md +++ b/site/content/pages/about/index.md @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ authors: Adam Harvey <p><div style="font-size:20px;line-height:36px">Ever since government agencies began developing face recognition in the early 1960's, datasets of face images have always been central to the development and evaluation face recognition technology. Today, these datasets no longer originate in labs, but instead from family photo albums posted on social media sites, CCTV camera footage from college campuses, search engine queries for celebrities, cafe livestreams, or <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/22/16180080/transgender-youtubers-ai-facial-recognition-dataset">videos on YouTube</a>. </div></p> -While many of these datasets include public figures such as politicans, athletes, and actors; they also include many non-public figures including digital activists, students, pedestrians, and people's semi-private shared photo albums. Some images are used with creative commons licenses, yet others were taken in unconstrained scenarios without awareness or consent. At first glance it appears many of the datasets were created for seemingly harmless academic research studies, but when examined further it becomes clear that they're also used by defense contractors in foreign countries. +While many of these datasets include public figures such as politicians, athletes, and actors; they also include many non-public figures including digital activists, students, pedestrians, and people's semi-private shared photo albums. Some images are used with creative commons licenses, yet others were taken in unconstrained scenarios without awareness or consent. At first glance it appears many of the datasets were created for seemingly harmless academic research, but when examined further it becomes clear that they're also used by foreign defense agencies. During the last year, hundreds of these facial analysis datasets created "in the wild" have been collected to understand how they contribute to a global supply chain of biometric data that is helping to power the global facial recognition industry. |