Microsoft Quietly Pulls Its Database of 100,000 Faces Used By Chinese Surveillance Companies
Back in 2016, Microsoft built a database of more than 10 million images featuring roughly 100,000 people. Today, the Financial Times has reported Microsoft quietly deleted this database, dubbed MS Celeb, from the internet. Before its deletion, MS Celeb was the largest public facial recognition data set in the world. It was purportedly called ‘Celeb’…
