Since publishing MegaPixels, several of the datasets mentioned have disappeared and one surveillance workshop was canceled. Below is a list of notable responses and reactions.
June 2: A person tracking surveillance workshop at CVPR has been canceled due to the Duke MTMC dataset no longer being available https://reid-mct.github.io/2019/
June 1: The UCCS dataset page 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.
May 2019
May 31: Semantic Scholar appears to be censoring citations used in this project. Two of the citations linking the Brainwash dataset to research from the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) in China have disabled. NUDT citation 1, NUDT citation 2, and the original paper show that the NUDT citation has been censored (see references)