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Facebook announced that it will shut down the social service’s facial-recognition system, and as part of that will delete more than 1 billion people’s individual facial-recognition templates.
Facebook said it will shut down its face-recognition system and delete the faceprints of more than 1 billion people amid growing concerns about the technology and its misuse by governments, police ...
The feature created templates of users' faces and compared them to other photos and videos posted on the platform.
DeepFace is a deep learning facial recognition system created by a research group at Facebook.It identifies human faces in digital images. The program employs a nine-layer neural network with over 120 million connection weights and was trained on four million images uploaded by Facebook users.
Facial recognition works by pinpointing unique dimensions of facial features, which are then rendered as a vector graphic image of the face. Fawkes is a facial image cloaking software created by the SAND (Security, Algorithms, Networking and Data) Laboratory of the University of Chicago . [ 1 ]
Facebook Moments was a private photo sharing app launched by Facebook in 2015 but discontinued on February 25, 2019. [141] The app was powered by Facebook's facial recognition technology to group photos and let users easily share them. [142]
Facebook said Tuesday it would drastically scale back its facial recognition system and delete more than 1 billion users' facial templates after years of
On November 2, 2021, Facebook announced it would shut down its facial recognition technology and delete the data on over a billion users. [245] Meta later announced plans to implement the technology as well as other biometric systems in its future products, such as the metaverse .