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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 ...
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.
The feature created templates of users' faces and compared them to other photos and videos posted on the platform.
The group claimed that Facebook failed to provide some of the requested data, including "likes", facial recognition data, data about third party websites that use "social plugins" visited by users, and information about uploaded videos. Currently the group claims that Facebook holds at least 84 data categories about every user. [136]
Facebook allows users to upload photos, and to add them to albums. In December 2010, the company enabled facial recognition technology, helping users identify people to tag in uploaded photos. [91] In May 2011, Facebook launched a feature to tag specific Facebook pages in photos, including brands, products, and companies. [92]
In 2010, the Office of the Data Protection Supervisor, a branch of the government of the Isle of Man, received so many complaints about Facebook that they deemed it necessary to provide a "Facebook Guidance" booklet (available online as a PDF file), which cited (amongst other things) Facebook policies and guidelines and included an elusive ...
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 .