Scraping Tinder selfies to make a dataset for AI experiments

Re:Scraping Tinder selfies to make a dataset for AI experiments by dvt on Saturday April 29, 2017 @03:22PM (#14228235)

Data set no longer exists, Tinder probably sent a C&D. I did something similar with FB a while ago -- scraped all photos of people that "Liked" a certain topic. It's no longer possible.

Definitely feels wrong having such easy access to people's pictures; it leads to interesting questions: is your face PII? Do you have ownership rights to your face? What about facial recognition algorithms that use pictures you upload to FB, Instagram, Tinder, etc. to generate, e.g., Haar cascades?

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Re:Scraping Tinder selfies to make a dataset for AI experiments by TillE on Saturday April 29, 2017 @04:04PM (#14228448)

Basic copyright protections mean you have zero rights to random photos you grab from some internet service. It's probably ok to just download them, but doing anything with them creates a derivative work which you cannot distribute without permission.

My point is, this kind of thing is already illegal.

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Re:Scraping Tinder selfies to make a dataset for AI experiments by dvt on Saturday April 29, 2017 @04:10PM (#14228484)

What about services that use my face for things like facial recognition (without explicit consent)?

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Re:Scraping Tinder selfies to make a dataset for AI experiments by noobermin on Saturday April 29, 2017 @03:44PM (#14228333)

>Is your face PII [personally identifiable information]?

Before computers existed, PII referred to information someone (ie., a human individual) can use to personally identify someone and probably[0] still does. I'd say a picture of someone is a good way to identify someone.

[0] The "probably" is sarcastic. Of course it is PII.

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