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Microsoft takes down MS Celeb facial recognition database, 10 million+ pics of ~100,000 faces, maybe yours, scraped under Creative Commons
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June 7, 2019, 5:38am
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Speaking of facial recognition:
Auditors slam FBI for shoddy testing of facial-recog tech. But no big deal. It only has 641m images on its systems
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