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# City worker saw homeless people lined up to get $5 gift card for face scan uploaded to Google
- URL: https://werd.io/city-worker-saw-homeless-people-lined-up-to-get-5/
- Published: 2021-10-19T20:09:13.000Z
- Updated: 2021-10-19T20:09:13.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:24

"A new photo obtained by the Daily News shows another view of the line of homeless people who gathered in an Atlanta park last May to get $5 gift cards in exchange for 3-D facial scans uploaded to Google." Article is from a couple of years ago, but is notable because this is part of the dataset being used to improve photography and recognition of people of color on the new Pixel devices.

\[[Link](https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-witness-saw-homeless-people-selling-face-scans-google-five-dollars-20191004-j6z2vonllnerpiuakt6wrp6l44-story.html)\]