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Below is a list of responses, reactions, and press:</p> +<h5>June 2019</h5> +<ul> +<li>June 2: A person tracking surveillance workshop at CVPR has been canceled due to the Duke MTMC dataset no longer being available <a href="https://reid-mct.github.io/2019/">https://reid-mct.github.io/2019/</a></li> +<li>June 2: The Duke MTMC dataset website (<a href="http://vision.cs.duke.edu/DukeMTMC/">http://vision.cs.duke.edu/DukeMTMC/</a>) has mysteriously disappeared without any reason provided</li> +<li>June 1: The <a href="/datasets/brainwash">Brainwash</a> face/head dataset has been taken down by its author <a href="https://exhibits.stanford.edu/data/catalog/sx925dc9385">https://exhibits.stanford.edu/data/catalog/sx925dc9385</a>. "This data was removed from access at the request of the depositor."</li> +<li>June 1: The <a href="/dataset/uccs">UCCS dataset page</a> has been updated with a response from the author to clarify that he did not provide any face data to government agencies. Funding was for technology transfer.</li> +</ul> +<h5>May 2019</h5> +<ul> +<li>May 31: Semantic Scholar appears to be censoring citations used in this project. Two of the citations linking the <a href="/datasets/brainwash">Brainwash</a> dataset to research from the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) in China have disabled. <a href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-Replacement-Algorithm-of-Non-Maximum-Suppression-Zhao-Wang/591a4bfa6380c9fcd5f3ae690e3ac5c09b7bf37b">NUDT citation 1</a>, <a href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Localized-region-context-and-object-feature-fusion-Li-Dou/b02d31c640b0a31fb18c4f170d841d8e21ffb66c">NUDT citation 2</a>, and the <a href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/End-to-End-People-Detection-in-Crowded-Scenes-Stewart-Andriluka/1bd1645a629f1b612960ab9bba276afd4cf7c666">original paper</a> show that the NUDT citation has been censored (see references)</li> +<li>May 28: The <a href="/datasets/msceleb">Microsoft Celeb</a> (MS-Celeb-1M) face dataset website is now 404 and all the download links were deactivated. It appears that Microsoft Research has shuttered access to their MS Celeb dataset. Yet it remains available, as of writing this, on <a href="https://ibug.doc.ic.ac.uk/resources/lightweight-face-recognition-challenge-workshop/">Imperial College London's website</a> and on <a href="https://msropendata.com/datasets/98fdfc70-85ee-5288-a69f-d859bbe9c737">https://msropendata.com/datasets/98fdfc70-85ee-5288-a69f-d859bbe9c737</a></li> +<li>May 29, 2019: UnConstrained College Students Dataset on <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/28/uccs-facial-recognition-study-students/">Engadget</a>, <a href="https://www.apnews.com/003bec760eae4d8085265af9e5175254">AP News</a>, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/05/28/us/ap-us-facial-recognition.html">New York Times</a>, <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/colorado/articles/2019-05-28/colorado-campus-photographed-for-facial-recognition-research">US News</a>, <a href="https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/college-students-secret-face-recognition-project/">Daily Dot</a>, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/colorado-students-photographed-for-facial-recognition-study/2019/05/28/0838be48-8165-11e9-b585-e36b16a531aa_story.html">Washington Post</a>, <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/colorado-students-unknowingly-photographed-for-facial-recognition-study/ar-AAC2Zkv">MSN</a>, <a href="https://iapp.org/news/a/students-photographed-for-facial-recognition-study/">International Association of Privacy Professionals</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61NPPD6Mhys">The Denver Channel</a>, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7079865/Spy-cameras-imaged-1-700-unwitting-subjects-facial-recognition-study-funded-U-S-government.html">Daily Mail</a>, <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/05/29/college-students-secretly-photographed-for-facial-recognition-study/">New York Post</a>, <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/colorado-students-photographed-facial-recognition-162127139.html">Yahoo! News</a></li> +<li>May 27, 2019: <a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2019/05/27/cu-colorado-springs-facial-recognition-research/">CU Colorado Springs students secretly photographed for government-backed facial-recognition research</a></li> +<li>May 22, 2019: <a href="https://www.csindy.com/coloradosprings/uccs-secretly-photographed-students-to-advance-facial-recognition-technology/Content?oid=19664437">UCCS secretly photographed students to advance facial recognition technology</a> by J. Adrian Stanley</li> +</ul> +<h5>April, 2019</h5> +<ul> +<li>April 20: Washington Post Editorial Board responds to Financial Times article based on data surfaced in MegaPixels project: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/microsoft-worked-with-a-chinese-military-university-on-ai-does-that-make-sense/2019/04/21/a0fb82c6-5d59-11e9-842d-7d3ed7eb3957_story.html">Opinion | Microsoft worked with a Chinese military university on AI. Does that make sense?</a></li> +<li>April 19: Financial Times feature on MegaPixels project: <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/cf19b956-60a2-11e9-b285-3acd5d43599e">Who's Using Your Face</a> by Madhumita Murgia</li> +<li>April 19: MegaPixels data cited by report in Financial Times: <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/41be9878-61d9-11e9-b285-3acd5d43599e">Western AI researchers partnered with Chinese surveillance firm</a> by Madhumita Murgia</li> +<li>April 10: <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/9378e7ee-5ae6-11e9-9dde-7aedca0a081a">Microsoft worked with Chinese military university on artificial intelligence</a> based on data surfaced in <a href="/datasets/msceleb">MS Celeb dataset</a></li> +</ul> +<h5>2018</h5> +<ul> +<li>Aug 22: HRT Transgender dataset on Verge.com: <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/22/16180080/transgender-youtubers-ai-facial-recognition-dataset">Transgender YouTubers had their videos grabbed to train facial recognition software</a> by James Vincent</li> +</ul> +</section> + + </div> + <footer> + <ul class="footer-left"> + <li><a href="/">MegaPixels.cc</a></li> + <li><a href="/datasets/">Datasets</a></li> + <li><a href="/about/">About</a></li> + <li><a href="/about/press/">Press</a></li> + <li><a href="/about/legal/">Legal and Privacy</a></li> + </ul> + <ul class="footer-right"> + <li>MegaPixels ©2017-19 <a href="https://ahprojects.com">Adam R. 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