IBM's Facial Recognition Database: Dangers of Hyperbole

I'm recovering from the hyperventilating hyperbole in the reportage of IBM's labeling of a dataset of facial photographs and making it available to researchers to reduce bias in facial recognition. NBC News went with a headline that read: Facial recognition's'dirty little secret': Millions of online photos scraped without consent. That might merit a "pants on fire" rating if it were in the realm of political reporting. The photos were not "scraped." The NBC story linked to IBM's discussion of its work which, in turn, identified the dataset that it used.