IBM didn’t inform people when it used their Flickr photos for facial recognition training

The Verge ---------- IBM took nearly a million photos from Flickr, used them to figure out how to train facial recognition training programs, and shared them with outside researchers. But as NBC points out, the people photographed on Flickr didn’t consent to having their photos used to develop facial recognition systems — and might easily not have, considering those systems could eventually be used to surveil and recognize them. To learn more click on the picture below to read the article.