Author: Lula Rania Salsabilla

The dataset of more than 10 million images had been linked to China’s crackdown on ethnic Muslims. This Post by Steven Musil June 6, 2019 8:19 PM PD The use of artificial intelligence and facial recognition in dense crowd spatial-temporal technology was part of a live demonstration at the Horizon Robotics exhibit during CES 2019.David Mcnew/AFP/Getty Images Podcast about this News by Lula Rania Salsabilla Microsoft has quietly taken down a massive facial recognition database containing more than 10 million images of roughly 100,000 people. The images were gathered from search engines and published in 2016 to a dataset called MS Celeb and used to train facial recognition systems around the world, including by military researchers and Chinese firms such as SenseTime and Megvii, the Financial Times reported Thursday. The dataset — previously used in an AI project to recognize celebrities — had been linked to China’s efforts to crack down on ethnic minorities in the country. “The site was intended for academic purposes,” Microsoft said in a statement. “It was run by an employee that is no longer with Microsoft and has since been removed.” Facial-recognition technology is commonly used for everyday tasks like unlocking phones and tagging friends on social media, but privacy concerns persist. Advances in artificial intelligence and the proliferation of cameras have made it increasingly easy to watch and track what individuals are doing. Law enforcement agencies frequently rely on technology to help...