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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 (then uncanceled).B elow is a timeline of events, 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). Below is a timeline of events, responses, reactions, and press:</p>
<h5>June 2019</h5>
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-<li>June 26: The Atlantic on datasets, and research ethics: <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/06/universities-record-students-campuses-research/592537/">Universities Record Students on Campuses for Research</a> by Sidney Fussell</li>
+<li>June 28: Munich Security Conference launches <a href="https://tsr.securityconference.de/">Transational Security Report</a> including data from the MegaPixels project on illicit data flows</li>
+<li>June 26: The Atlantic writes about image training datasets "in the wild" and research ethics: <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/06/universities-record-students-campuses-research/592537/">Universities Record Students on Campuses for Research</a> by Sidney Fussell</li>
<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 22: La Stampa (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>
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<section><h1>Dataset Analyses</h1>
<p>Explore face and person recognition datasets contributing to the growing crisis of authoritarian biometric surveillance. This first group of 5 datasets focuses on image usage connected to foreign surveillance and defense organizations.</p>
-<p>Since publishing this project in April 2019, the <a href="https://purl.stanford.edu/sx925dc9385">Brainwash</a>, <a href="http://vision.cs.duke.edu/DukeMTMC/">Duke MTMC</a>, and <a href="http://msceleb.org/">MS Celeb</a> datasets have been taken down by their authors. The <a href="https://vast.uccs.edu/Opensetface/">UCCS</a> dataset was temporarily deactivated due to metadata exposure and the <a href="http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/ActiveVision/Research/Projects/2009bbenfold_headpose/project.html">Town Centre data</a> remains active.</p>
+<p>In response to the analyses below, the <a href="https://purl.stanford.edu/sx925dc9385">Brainwash</a>, <a href="http://vision.cs.duke.edu/DukeMTMC/">Duke MTMC</a>, and <a href="http://msceleb.org/">MS Celeb</a> datasets have been taken down by their authors. The <a href="https://vast.uccs.edu/Opensetface/">UCCS</a> dataset was temporarily deactivated due to metadata exposure. Read more <a href="/about/news">news</a>. Additional datasets and research will be published in September 2019.</p>
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