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		adolph on Sept 28, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Carnegie Mellon face recognition study has unsettl... Q. Were the tests IRB approved? Yes, they were approved. As in our previous studies, no SSNs (or faces) were harmed during the writing of this paper.

praeclarum on Sept 28, 2011 [–]

Except, of course, for those few SSNs and addresses that Paul the grad student sold so he could play with a botnet. Oh, and we gave the database and algorithms over to the DoD who sponsored our work. I'm sure they won't harm any SSNs or faces either.

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