Last Week in AI Facial Recognition and Privacy, Amazon AI Cameras, AI in Health Care
Feb 11, 2021
The discussion highlights how we’ve lost control over our own faces to facial recognition technology. There's a new tool that helps individuals find out if their photos are being used by these systems. Amazon faces serious privacy backlash from its AI camera systems in delivery vans. Plus, the role of AI in healthcare raises unique data challenges, especially regarding patient privacy and ethical considerations. This intriguing mix of topics reveals the complex landscape of AI and surveillance.
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Facial Recognition Data Concerns
- A new study examined 130 facial recognition datasets over 43 years.
- It found increasing use of data gathered without consent, scraped from public photos.
Check for Your Photos
- Use Exposing.ai to check if your photos are in facial recognition datasets.
- The tool searches datasets like Megaface, built from Flickr photos.
Sources of Facial Recognition Data
- AI researchers scraped photos from various sources, including Flickr, Facebook, dating sites, and college cameras.
- Megaface, one such dataset, has been downloaded over 6,000 times by governments and companies.