Hopefully the final follow up from my post about facial recognitions dirty little secret millions of online photos scraped without consent. and the update.
Thank you for your prompt response. We confirm that we have deleted from the DiF dataset all the URLs linked to your Flickr ID and associated annotations. We have also deleted your Flickr ID from our records. IBM will require our research partners to comply with your deletion request and provide IBM with confirmation of compliance.
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End of the matter, although part of me wants to contact everybody in the photos and tell them what happened. Not sure what that would achieve however?
