Facebook has decided to shut down Face Recognition program. The company will delete face data of its billions of users from the system by December 2021.
Facebook, the company which recently changed its name to ‘Meta,’ has announced that it’s shutting down its Facebook’s face recognition program — the technology that automatically recognizes users in photos and videos. The move comes after Facebook’s long legal battle, and now the company has decided to shut down the program. Facebook AI’s vice president, Jerome Pesenti, on the shut of face recognition system said that the “regulators are still in the process of providing a clear set of rules governing its use. Amid this ongoing uncertainty, we believe that limiting the use of facial recognition to a narrow set of use cases is appropriate.
