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Facebook to end facial-recognition system for more than 1B users

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MENLO PARK, Calif. - Facebook said it will shut down its face-recognition system and delete the faceprints of more than 1 billion people."This change will represent one of the largest shifts in facial recognition usage in the technology’s history," said a blog post Tuesday from Jerome Pesenti, vice president of artificial intelligence for Facebook’s new parent company, Meta. "More 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."He said the company was trying to weigh the positive use cases for the technology "against growing societal concerns,.

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