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In a blog post Tuesday, Facebook's parent company Meta said the company was weighing positive use cases for the tech "against growing societal concerns."

Facebook said it will shut down its face-recognition system and delete the faceprints of more than 1 billion people. “This change will represent one of the largest shifts in facial recognition usage in the technology’s history,” said a blog post Tuesday from Jerome Pesenti, vice president of artificial intelligence for Facebook’s new parent company, Meta. […]

Facebook will now limit the use of facial recognition in its products and, in the coming weeks, will delete all stored facial data of its users.

Facebook had already been scaling back its use of facial recognition after introducing it more than a decade ago.

In a blog post Tuesday, Facebook's parent company Meta said the company was weighing positive use cases for the tech "against growing societal concerns."

In a blog post Tuesday, Facebook's parent company Meta said the company was weighing positive use cases for the tech "against growing societal concerns."

In a blog post Tuesday, Facebook's parent company Meta said the company was weighing positive use cases for the tech "against growing societal concerns."

The face-recognition system on Facebook will be shut down in the coming weeks.

"This change will represent one of the largest shifts in facial recognition usage in the technologys history," the company wrote in a blog post.

Facebook announced Tuesday that it is shutting down its 10-year-old facial recognition system and deleting the face prints of over 1 billion people after coming under pressure for the programs privacy implications and legal and regulatory risks.