CU Colorado Springs students secretly photographed for government-backed facial-recognition research
May 282019
May 28, 2019
Breaches, Featured News, Surveillance, U.S., Youth & Schools
Elizabeth Hernandez follows up on a story that the Colorado Springs Independent broke last week:
A professor at the University of Colorado’s Colorado Springs campus led a project that secretly snapped photos of more than 1,700 students, faculty members and others walking in public more than six years ago in an effort to enhance facial-recognition technology.
The photographs were posted online as a dataset that could be publicly downloaded from 2016 until this past April.
Read more on the Denver Post.
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