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Roger McNamee, a previous advisor to the tech CEO, called for misuse of users' data to be seen as unethical as child labour while speaking at the Lisbon Tech Summit yesterday.
Facebook will no longer be deploying facial recognition technology. Its parent company, Meta, however, will still continue to do this. Learn more.
Users of the social network will have their face data deleted, Facebook's parent company Meta has announced, but it is less clear what will happen with the AI algorithms trained on that data
The Facebook company now known as Meta announced this week that it is shutting down the Face Recognition system on Facebook. Meta stated that this is part of a company-wide move to limit the use of facial recognition technology in its products.
Luchezar/iStock (NEW YORK) -- Meta, the newly named parent company of Facebook, announced Tuesday that it was shutting down its use of a facial recognition system on its social media platform. The announcement comes after mounting pressure from advocacy groups concerned about privacy issues, allegations of racial bias in algorithms and additional concerns related to how artificial intelligence technology identifies people's faces in pictures. It also notably comes amid renewed scrutiny of the tech giant from lawmakers and beyond. "We need to weigh the positive use cases for facial re...