MS Celeb Deleted

Tech-World - Just recently,Microsoft deleted its facial recognition database or software which have already 10 million images of 100,000 people in concern for its potential misuse of the software.



MS Celeb since its first appearance in 2016 or its introduction,"...has become an important part of testing and training computers to recognize the images of people,and has become the largest publicly available facial recognition data set in the world.Some of the most powerful facial recognition algorithms in the world; in fact,have been trained using MS Celeb." (CPO Magazine)

The software has been in the bad light and its usage though it is said it is only intended for academic purpose and only for celebrities.

"For the past two years,facial recognition software has come under increasing criticism by data privacy experts,human rights organizations and ethicists. As they see it,facial recognition database have the potential for dangerous abuse by law enforcement agencies,corporations and government authorities.Case in point: the MS Celeb facial recognition database has been used by Chinese tech firms such as Sensetime and Megvii to aid Chinese government authorities in using facial recognition tools to trade and oppress ethnic minorities,especially those in the region of Xinjang. In addition,military researchers have also used MS Celeb to train facial recognition software,leading to concerns that the original,everyday uses of facial recognition technology - sch as to unlock a smartphone -might have been supplanted by other,more sinister uses for the technology." (CPO Magazine)

Though Microsoft have already deleted it,it is fear that some people might be still using it because they have a copy of it,when they have downloaded it then before Microsoft have deleted it.