Facebook said Tuesday it would drastically scale back its facial recognition system and delete more than 1 billion users' facial templates after years of mounting criticism over the company's ...

and will delete more than a billion people’s individual facial recognition templates, the company said Tuesday. Meta, the new name of Facebook’s parent company, said the decision was made due ...

Editor’s Note: After this post was published, Facebook provided more specific details about how their face recognition system works. The following post has been updated to include the additional ...

“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 ...

and it will delete the facial recognition templates that it uses for identification. “Looking ahead, we still see facial recognition technology as a powerful tool,” writes Pesenti in a blog ...

Facebook on Tuesday announced it's shutting down its facial recognition system and deleting individual facial recognition templates for more than a billion people. "The many specific instances ...

and its removal will result in the deletion of more than a billion people’s individual facial recognition templates.” Facebook said it’s not necessarily opposed to deploying other uses of ...

and as part of that will delete more than 1 billion people’s individual facial-recognition templates. For more than a decade, Facebook has used the opt-in system to automatically recognize ...

and we will delete the facial recognition template used to identify them," Pesenti added. The Facebook logo is displayed on their website in an illustration photo taken, Feb. 1, 2017. Regis ...

You'll no longer be automatically recognized in photos if you opted in to the feature, and the Facebook team will delete over a billion facial recognition templates. Automatic Alt Text's ...