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The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2019 09:37:28 EDT The Tor Project

If you are in a photo that has been uploaded to Flickr, IBM may have used your face to train facial recognition technology that could eventually be used to surveil you.
Nearly a million photos were scraped from Flickr to do so.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/facial-recognition-s-dirty-little-secret-millions-online-photos-scraped-n981921
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1. Facial recognition's 'dirty little secret': Social media photos used without consent
  
  from NBC News
  
  People’s faces are being used without their permission, in order to power technology that could eventually be used to surveil them, legal experts say.

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