Meta Platforms Inc., Facebook's parent company, appears to be looking at new forms of identifying people. She added that the move also demonstrates the power of regulatory pressure, since the face recognition system has been the subject of harsh criticism for over a decade. The decision to end the use of facial recognition "is a good example of trying to make product decisions that are good for the user and the company," said Kristen Martin, a professor of technology ethics at the University of Notre Dame. The company was sued in Illinois over the tag suggestion feature and agreed to pay $550 million as a result. Instead, it replaced the tag suggestion with a broader facial recognition tool, which identifies people's faces in photos for various uses, not just tagging. The company in 2019 ended its practice of using face recognition software to identify users' friends in uploaded photos and automatically suggesting they "tag" them. But Facebook has recently begun scaling back its use of facial recognition after introducing it more than a decade ago. More than a third of Facebook's daily active users have opted in to have their faces recognized by the social network's system. Leaked documents from whistleblower Frances Haugen showed that it has known about the harms its products cause and often did little or nothing to mitigate them. The company is also facing perhaps its biggest public relations crisis to date after
The change, it said, will help it focus on building technology for what it envisions as the next iteration of the internet - the "metaverse."
On Thursday it announced its new name Meta for Facebook the company, but not the social network. 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."įacebook's about-face follows a busy few weeks. "Its removal will result in the deletion of more than a billion people's individual facial recognition templates." "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. (AP) - Facebook said it will shut down its face-recognition system and delete the faceprints of more than 1 billion people amid growing concerns about the technology and its misuse by governments, police and others.
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