News, Reviews & Betas which includes large community peer support 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.
Less than a week after Facebook rebranded as Meta it has announced that it is turning off facial recognition on Facebook over ‘growing societal concerns’ and growing regulatory scrutiny. Those who opted into the facial recognition system will no longer be recognised in videos and photos and more than a billion people’s individual facial recognition templates will be deleted.
