Meta ends facial recognition on Facebook, deletes over a billion saved faces - SoyaCincau

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Following a lengthy legal battle and forking USD650 million in a class action lawsuit, Meta will stop using its facial recognition technology on Facebook.

Nevertheless, they’re killing facial recognition as, in Pesenti’s words, they’ve seen growing concerns about the technology in society, especially as the authorities have yet to present a clear set of rules and regulations surrounding facial recognition. As such, they’ll only be allowing facial recognition to be used in very specific situations, such as helping users regain access to a locked account or when dealing with something financial related.

But the many specific instances where facial recognition can be helpful need to be weighed against growing concerns about the use of this technology as a whole. There are many concerns about the place of facial recognition technology in society, and regulators are still in the process of providing a clear set of rules governing its use. Amid this ongoing uncertainty, we believe that limiting the use of facial recognition to a narrow set of use cases is appropriate.

Meta’s long statement aside, it should be noted that this was perhaps a long time coming now. Back in 2015, an attorney by the name of Jay Edelson sued Facebook over its facial recognition tagging technology in the state of Illinois, US. This was because Illinois has laws that prohibit the use of facial recognition technology under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.

 

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