PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Facebook said it will shut down its face-recognition system & delete the faceprints of more than 1 billion people amid growing concerns about the technology & its misuse by governments, police & others.
“This change will represent one of the largest shifts in facial recognition usage in the technology’s history,” Jerome Pesenti, vice president of artificial intelligence for Facebook’s new parent company, Meta, wrote in a blog post on Tuesday.
He said the company was trying to weigh the positive use cases for the technology “against growing societal concerns, especially as regulators have yet to provide clear rules.” The company in the coming weeks will delete “more than a billion people’s individual facial recognition templates,” he said.
More than a third of Facebook’s daily active users have opted in to have their faces recognized by the social network’s system. That’s about 640 million people. Facebook introduced facial recognition more than a decade ago but gradually made it easier to opt out of the feature as it faced scrutiny from courts & regulators.
Facebook in 2019 stopped automatically recognizing people in photos and suggesting people “tag” them & instead of making that the default, asked users to choose if they wanted to use its facial recognition feature.
Meta Platforms Inc., Facebook’s parent company, appears to be looking at new forms of identifying people. Pesenti said Tuesday’s announcement involves a “company-wide move away from this kind of broad identification & toward narrower forms of personal authentication.”
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