Facebook said it will shut down its face-recognition system and delete the faceprints of more than 1 billion people.
A blog post from Facebook's Vice President Jerome Pesenti said that more than a third of Facebook's daily active users had opted in for its Face Recognition setting, now their faceprint data will be deleted.
Facebook said it will shut down its face-recognition system and delete the faceprints of more than 1 billion people.
바카라This change will represent one of the largest shifts in facial recognition usage in the technology's history,바카라 said a blog post Tuesday from Jerome Pesenti, vice president of artificial intelligence for Facebook's new parent company, Meta.
바카라More than a third of Facebook's daily active users have opted in to our Face Recognition setting and are able to be recognized, and its removal will result in the deletion of more than a billion people's individual facial recognition templates.바카라
He said the company was trying to weigh the positive use cases for the technology 바카라against growing societal concerns, especially as regulators have yet to provide clear rules.바카라
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. The setting's removal will mean deleting more than a billion people's individual facial recognition templates, Pesenti said.
Facebook had already been scaling back its use of facial recognition after introducing it more than a decade ago.
The company in 2019 ended its practice of using face recognition software to identify users' friends in uploaded photos and automatically suggesting they 바카라tag바카라 them. Facebook was sued in Illinois over the tag suggestion feature.