Facebook plans to shut down its face recognition system, delete data
Facebook on Tuesday announced that it plans to shut down its decade-old facial recognition system this month.Jerome Pesenti, Vice President of Artificial Intelligence at Meta, Facebook's newly named parent company, said in a blog post, "We will shut down the Face Recognition system on Facebook as part of a company-wide move to limit the use of facial recognition in our products. As part of this change, people who have opted for our Face Recognition setting will no longer be automatically recognized in photos and videos, and we will delete the facial recognition template used to identify them. More than a third of Facebook's daily active users have opted for the Face Recognition setting and are able to be recognized. As part of this change, people who have opted for the Face Recognition setting will no longer be automatically recognized in photos and videos, and Facebook will delete the facial recognition template used to identify them.
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