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status: published
title: MegaPixels: Face Recognition Datasets
desc: Facial Recognition Datasets
slug: home
published: 2018-12-15
updated: 2019-04-24
authors: Adam Harvey
sync: false
 
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# Dataset Analyses

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. 

In response to the analyses below, the [Brainwash](https://purl.stanford.edu/sx925dc9385), [Duke MTMC](http://vision.cs.duke.edu/DukeMTMC/), and [MS Celeb](http://msceleb.org/) datasets have been taken down by their authors. The [UCCS](https://vast.uccs.edu/Opensetface/) dataset was temporarily deactivated due to metadata exposure. Read more [news](/about/news). Additional datasets and research will be published in September 2019.