PC Magazine - USA (2021-12)

Meta will shut down Facebook’s facial-recognition system and delete the

template it uses to recognize people in photos.

More than a third of Facebook’s daily active users have opted in to the system,

which can suggest people to tag when you upload a photo. So axing the system

“will represent one of the largest shifts in facial recognition usage in the

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Pesenti didn’t point to a single incident that prompted the decision, saying only

that there are “growing concerns about the use of this technology as a whole.”

But it comes as facial-recognition systems (and Facebook in general) have come

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Facebook Shuts Down Its

Facial-Recognition System

Facebook doesn’t point to a single incident that prompted the
decision, but it comes as facial-recognition systems (and the
social network in general) have come under fire.
BY CHLOE ALBANESIUS

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