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The Overseen

Investigating surveillance, data and automated systems, and the people on the other end of them.

41 million frames

Sense/Net’s new transparency report has dozens of tables about the performers in its recordings. One table is about people who never agreed to anything: 41,233,860 frames of first-person footage licensed from a single partner in Tokyo to train the tool that fills its scenes with generated crowds. Tomás Arrieta and Aaron Dziedzic read the small print.

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