Facebook will discontinue facial recognition feature that it has used for years
Facebook has announced that it will shut down its facial recognition programme days after changing its company name to Meta.
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Facebook has announced that it will shut down its facial recognition programme days after changing its company name to Meta.
More than a third of Facebook's daily active users have opted for the Face Recognition setting and are able to be recognized. Its removal will result in the deletion of more than a billion people's individual facial recognition templates.
Facebook announces that they will remove facial recognition features in their social media app. A Facebook official announced their plan on Tuesday about terminating the social media giant's facial recognition system, citing "societal concerns.
Limiting the use of the technology to 'a narrow set of use cases' will be appropriate, it says
In a statement, Facebook's Vice-President Artificial Intelligence Jerome Pesenti said that the social media giant is shutting down its facial recognition system.