r/MachineLearning - [D] ICCV 19 - The state of (some) ethically questionable papers

I was wondering if anyone else have similar feelings with regards to a number of accepted papers coming from Chinese universities/authors presented in ICCV. Thus far in the conference, I came across quite a lot of papers with questionable motives which made me question the ethical consequences. These papers are, for the most part, concerned with various forms of person identification (i.e., typical big brother stuff). In fact, when you look at the accepted papers, more than 80% of any kind of identification papers have Chinese authors/affiliations. But that's not all, some papers go to extreme lengths of person re-identification such as: And maybe you think person re-identification is all there is, but its not.