Facebook abandons automatic facial recognition on your photos and videos

 

Today, social network is saying goodbye to this technology.

Facial recognition on Facebook is over!

For more than ten years now, the Facebook network has offered a facial recognition system, allowing people to be identified in a photo or video. Today, Meta has decided to put an end to this technology within its social network, and will even remove all the digital identifications accumulated over the years.

In a statement, Meta explains, “We are shutting down Facebook's facial recognition system. People who have signed up will no longer be recognized automatically in photos and videos and we will remove facial recognition models from over a billion people ”.

For Meta, this is a major change in the history of Facebook, the company taking care of recalling that more than a third of the users of the social network have chosen to use facial recognition technology. The American group does not question the facial recognition tool, which can be useful for 'people who need to verify their identity or prevent fraud and identity theft.

However, Meta says it has recognized the growing concerns about the use of this technology as a whole. This a technology that is causing a lot of concern, even as regulators try to provide a set of rules that govern its use.

“In this context of continuing uncertainty, we believe it is appropriate to limit the use of facial recognition to a small set of use cases,” concludes Meta. Facial recognition technology will be deactivated in the coming weeks. You have been warned.