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diff --git a/site/content/pages/about/index.md b/site/content/pages/about/index.md index f238387c..b2dcf28c 100644 --- a/site/content/pages/about/index.md +++ b/site/content/pages/about/index.md @@ -62,8 +62,8 @@ A dataset of verified geocoded citations and datasets statistics will be publish ##### Contributing Researchers -- Berit Gilma - Beth (aka Ms. Celeb) +- Berit Gilma - Mathana Stender =========== diff --git a/site/content/pages/about/news.md b/site/content/pages/about/news.md index de3e8f95..c4af19f6 100644 --- a/site/content/pages/about/news.md +++ b/site/content/pages/about/news.md @@ -23,11 +23,16 @@ authors: Adam Harvey </section> -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: +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: ##### June 2019 +- June 24: Les Echos (FR) writes about MS Celeb dataset and [Le mariage explosif de nos données et de l'IA](https://www.lesechos.fr/tech-medias/intelligence-artificielle/le-mariage-explosif-de-nos-donnees-et-de-lia-1031813) (The explosive combination of our data and AI) +- June 22: La Stamp (Italy) [writes about Microsoft's removal of the MS Celeb dataset](https://www.lastampa.it/2019/06/22/tecnologia/microsoft-ha-cancellato-il-suo-database-per-il-riconoscimento-facciale-PWwLGmpO1fKQdykMZVBd9H/pagina.html) +- June 15: De Tijd (Belgium) [writes about Brainwash head dataset](https://www.tijd.be/dossier/legrandinconnu/brainwash/10136670.html) +- June 13: [Creator of Duke MTMC dataset apologizes to students recorded for surveillance research](https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2019/06/duke-university-video-analysis-research-at-duke-carlo-tomasi) 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" +- Jun 12: Duke Chronicle, Duke University's student paper, investigates Duke MTMC dataset, confirms it violated IRB: ["A Duke study recorded thousands of students’ faces. Now they’re being used all over the world"](https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2019/06/duke-university-facial-recognition-data-set-study-surveillance-video-students-china-uyghur) - June 7: Additional coverage of FT's story by [BBC](https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48555149), [Spiegel.de](https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/microsoft-gesichtserkennung-datenbank-mit-zehn-millionen-fotos-geloescht-a-1271221.html), [IrishTimes](https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/microsoft-quietly-deletes-largest-public-face-recognition-data-set-1.3916825), and [Gizmodo](https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-quietly-pulls-its-database-of-100-000-faces-u-1835296212) - June 6: Financial Times covers the abrupt disappearance of four facial recognition datasets: [Microsoft quietly deletes largest public face recognition data set](https://www.ft.com/content/7d3e0d6a-87a0-11e9-a028-86cea8523dc2) by Madhumita Murgia - June 2: A person tracking surveillance workshop at CVPR ([reid-mct.github.io/2019](https://reid-mct.github.io/2019/)) has been canceled due to the [Duke MTMC dataset](/datasets/duke_mtmc) 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." |