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Facial Recognition Researchers Used YouTube Videos of Transgender People without Consent
YouTube videos of transgender people used by researchers to study facial recognition during gender transitions were used and distributed without permission.
- Date it happened
- 2013-09-13
- Organisation involved
- University of North Carolina Wilmington, Karl Ricanek, Gayathri Mahalingam
- Product, system or model
- Ricaneck built a biometric dataset of 10,000 images of 38 trans people, scraped from their YouTube videos documenting their hormone therapies in order to improve the accuracy of facial recognition sys
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