>The largest ever study of facial-recognition data shows how much the rise of deep learning has fueled a loss of privacy. "In 1964, mathematician and computer scientist Woodrow Bledsoe first attempted the task of matching suspects’ faces to mugshots. He measured out the distances between different facial features in printed photographs and fed them into a computer program. His rudimentary successes would set off decades of research into teaching machines to recognize human faces. Now a new study shows just how much this enterprise has eroded our privacy. It hasn’t just fueled an increasingly powerful tool of surveillance. The latest generation of deep-learning-based facial recognition has completely disrupted our norms of consent."

What can we do? Lobby our politicians to make it illegal to collect this data?

The need for bigdata is forcing us to collect incredibly sensitive information we can't control to build something that likely will function in ways we can’t even predict. Are we betraying every ethical premise to exploit machinelearning?

"Researchers, driven by the exploding data requirements of deep learning, gradually abandoned asking for people’s consent. This has led more and more of people’s personal photos to be incorporated into systems of surveillance without their knowledge."

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