Free to re-use? The case of facial images scrapped from the Internet and compiled in mega research datasets

• Post by: Catherine Jasserand
• 17 November 2020
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This blogpost is inspired by recent discussions with scientists specialised in biometric recognition. Despite the deactivation of two large face datasets composed of images harvested online, researchers keep on using similar ‘public datasets. But how free are the face images they use?