How Facial Recognition Databases See Copyright Law But Not Your Privacy
Whether you realize it or not, your face may not be “yours” anymore.
Certain companies engaging in facial recognition research (like IBM) obtain photos from publicly available collections for research purposes to “train” their algorithms, without your permission or even knowledge.
From a copyright perspective, they are covered by “fair use” of copyrighted works for “purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research….”. Or they use compilations of photos licensed under Creative Commons license,
Full article: In Your Face: How Facial Recognition Databases See Copyright Law But Not Your Privacy | Above the Law
