Be careful where you store your photos. Earlier this year IBM released a dataset of 1 million photos of people's faces designed to reduce bias in facial recognition software. I was surprised that the pictures were taken from Flickr & so investigated the origins of facial recognition datasets
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/facial-recognition-s-dirty-little-secret-millions-online-photos-sc-aped-n981921
I am not trying to defend IBM but if you are not careful mistakes like this may happen - people should have blocked public access to their photo libraries.
IBM stock stuck in 138 because IBM keeps so many old tech guys. and having management issues,
for example: A Mexican in the Accessibility (UI design) team name Si protect his Mexican person the manager laid off other people that are not Mexican and the person is not have strong technical without college degree and as contractors and have been with the group more than decade. because they are same race
@kirkusinnc: Bite this:
According to https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/:
"Noncommercial means:
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work - and derivative works based upon it - but for noncommercial purposes only."
From the article linked by the OP:
"Holzer was concerned that a company like IBM — even its research division — had used photos he published under a noncommercial license."
“'Since I assume that IBM is not a charitable organization and at the end of the day wants to make money with this technology, this is clearly a commercial use,' he said."
Suggest you do a bit of research before letting your predisposition to blame IBM cloud the real story. The pictures were uploaded to the web (FLICKR) under the Creative Commons license which allows for their free use by others for almost any purpose. IBM did nothing wrong here. Just because the photographers were "surprised" does not put IBM in any kind of legal jeopardy. The bottom line... If you don't want your photos used in such a fashion, don't release using the CC license or, better yet, don't upload them in the first place.
Because IBM employees don't care any more, not even attorneys.
How could this possibly happen at IBM? How could a data set containing real pictures (real data!) get past IBM's stellar attorneys? As someone who has worked on IBM's stellar data products I know for a fact that every data set that goes public in support of said stellar data products is fake (fake!). The data set might originally be real but by the time it gets released to the public it's been p-ss-d on and spit on by nearly everyone on the team, and then shat on repeatedly by the attorneys, so it's no longer recognizable as the original. How did real pictures get released?