How Photos of Your Kids Are Powering Surveillance Technology

Les photos de vos enfants postées sur les réseaux sociaux permettent la surveillance de masse ►https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/11/technology/flickr-facial-recognition.html

How #Photos of Your Kids Are Powering #Surveillance Technology - The New York Times
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One day in 2005, a mother in Evanston, Ill., joined Flickr. She uploaded some pictures of her children, Chloe and Jasper. Then she more or less forgot her account existed.

Years later, their faces are in a database that’s used to test and train some of the most sophisticated artificial intelligence systems in the world.

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None of them could have foreseen that 14 years later, those images would reside in an unprecedentedly huge facial-recognition database called MegaFace. Containing the likenesses of nearly 700,000 individuals, it has been downloaded by dozens of companies to train a new generation of face-identification algorithms, used to track protesters, surveil terrorists, spot problem gamblers and spy on the public at large.

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