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Meta is deleting a billion 'faceprints' and closing down Facebook's facial recognition system

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Facebook’s parent company, Meta, has announced a major shift for the social networking, saying it will no longer use facial recognition to identify users in photographs.
Facebook’s parent company, Meta, has announced a major shift for the social networking, saying it will no longer use facial recognition to identify users in photographs. As well as closing down the facial recognition system, the company will also delete over a billion people’s individual facial recognition templates. Meta says that it is part of „company-wide move to limit the use of facial recognition in our products“, and it is move that will be welcomed by privacy advocates.

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