"We need to weigh the positive use cases for facial recognition against growing societal concerns, especially as regulators have yet to provide clear rules," Jerome Pesenti, VP of artificial intelligence at Meta (the new corporate name of Facebook), wrote in a blog post Tuesday. Last year Facebook agreed to pay $650 million to settle class-action litigation alleging the tech giant violated users' privacy via its photo-tagging feature that uses the face-recognition system - one of the biggest ever amounts in a privacy lawsuit. But the technology has drawn fire from privacy advocates and regulators for years. LOS ANGELES () - Facebook announced that it will shut down the social service's facial-recognition system, and as part of that will delete more than 1 billion people's individual facial-recognition templates.įor more than a decade, Facebook has used the opt-in system to automatically recognize people in photos and videos shared on the service.
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