Flutterby™! : Is anybody else concerned that the

Is anybody else concerned that the withdrawal of all of these facial recognition databases means that we now have an asymmetry in building machine learning models, and the big companies with large photo collections have even more power?

My first thought on learning about the Perceptics breach was "dang, I'd love to be able to train on that data set".

The Register: Maker of US border's license-plate scanning tech ransacked by hacker, blueprints and files dumped online

Washington Post: U.S. Customs and Border Protection says photos of travelers were taken in a data breach