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As Facebook deletes more than a billion users’ face templates, Illinoisans still waiting on payout

As Facebook deletes more than a billion users’ face templates, Illinoisans still waiting on payout

(The Center Square) – That check from Facebook for violating Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act by cataloging faces without permission isn’t in the mail yet. It could still be a while. Despite that, the case appears to be havi...

As Facebook deletes more than a billion users’ face templates, Illinoisans still waiting on payout

As Facebook deletes more than a billion users’ face templates, Illinoisans still waiting on payout

Meta to continue use of facial recognition feature for users

Facebook just made a big deal of shutting down its original facial recognition system. But the company’s pivot to the metaverse means collecting more personal information than ever before.

Earlier this week, Facebook announced that it would be shutting down its facial recognition systems. But now, the social network's parent company Meta said

Facebook Face Recognition used to analyse the photos and videos that the company thinks a user is in on Facebook and it replaced the "tag suggestion" setting on the social network. Facial recognition has been available on Facebook since 2011, and Facebook turned the feature on automatically for more than 500 million people at the time that it debuted.

Meta says it will continue to explore the technology