For anyone who is justifiably concerned about their data with this project, this is the TaC. Obviously, you have to choose to believe them but they are associated with the EU, the single largest state level advocate for data privacy, so I do:
This is an art project by Tijmen Schep that shows how face detection algoritms are increasingly used to judge you. It was made as part of the European Union’s Sherpa research program.
No personal data is sent to our server in any way. Nothing. Zilch. Nada. All the face detection algorithms will run on your own computer, in the browser.
In this ‘test’ your face is compared with that of all the other people who came before you. At the end of the show you can, if you want to, share some anonimized data. That will then be used to re-calculate the new average. That anonymous data is not shared any further.
You can also read more about the sources and source code that this project is based on, or read the press release.
