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Facebook is shutting down its facial recognition system, and will delete more than a billion people’s individual facial recognition templates, the company said Tuesday.
Facebook has said it's disabling facial recognition on its platform. It'll see a degrade in the quality of automatic alt text but the firm said it wants to wait for regulators to lay out rules.
Facebook is shuttering its Face Recognition project as part of a company-wide move to limit the use of facial recognition in its products.
Facebook doesn't point to a single incident that prompted the decision, but it comes as facial-recognition systems (and the social network in general) have come under fire.