Move seen as step towards convincing critics the company is taking privacy concerns seriously
Facebook parent Meta will no longer use facial recognition for photos and videos shared to the company’s flagship social network, saying it needs to weigh the benefits against growing concerns about the technology.
Facebook on Monday said it will shut down this system for privacy reasons, and will delete more than a billion “facial recognition templates” it has collected over the years. More than a third of Facebook’s daily active users are currently using the feature, the company wrote in a blog post. “Every new technology brings with it potential for both benefit and concern, and we want to find the right balance,” Meta wrote in the post. “In the case of facial recognition, its long-term role in society needs to be debated in the open, and among those who will be most impacted by it.”
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