Microsoft quietly romoves massive facial recognition database

[Jtalk4456]

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48555149

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Microsoft has deleted a massive database of 10 million images which was being used to train facial recognition systems, the Financial Times reports.

So this was made of images from over 100000 people and was used to help train police systems apparently
 

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Last year Microsoft President Brad Smith asked the US Congress to take on the task of regulating the use of facial recognition systems because they had "broad societal ramifications and potential for abuse".

More recently, Microsoft rejected a request from police in California to use its face-spotting systems in body cameras and cars.

 

Say what you will about win 10 telemetry but this is a good move and i hope windows continues to advocate for privacy

[Neftex]

they deleted it after the AI was already trained i guess... so i dont see anything to be happy about

[Trik'Stari]

It will get regulated once someone makes a video of Hillary, Obama, and Trump having a three-way involving farm animals.

[Delicieuxz]

18 hours ago, Neftex said:

they deleted it after the AI was already trained i guess... so i dont see anything to be happy about

Just like how using the Windows 10 and online options to delete the data Microsoft has harvested from you is pointless because as soon as Microsoft first has it, it's compiled and aggregated in all ways so that the commercial value and result of that data will still exist even if a person deletes it through their account.

 

Same goes with Google and Facebook and Twitter and other data-harvesters. Once they have it, they have it in many forms. The option to delete the base form of it that's associated with your account is simply placebo and sleight-of-hand. The only way to have data privacy is to prevent companies from getting it in the first place.

[The King of the Undead]

well now some people won't be as recognizable when the overlords take over!

[sof006]

No such thing as privacy or digital data rights. And there never will be. That's how this world works.

[Misanthrope]

I bet the entire fucking thing has already been compromised: either stolen (And they just think they can get away with not coping to it) or already in the hands of a government agency via a secret court with a gag order that forbidden disclosure.

[jagdtigger]

4 hours ago, sof006 said:

or digital data rights

Tell that to the entertainment industry....

 

/ON

Pure PR stunt...

[Jtalk4456]

as much as i understand the size of this vs the larger data issues, anything is better than nothing. As for "the data has been used" i'm fine with ai's being trained, I'm more worried about someone other than me controlling tons of pictures of me. Just having the data gone is better than nothing.