Facebook Announces It Will Shut Down Facial Recognition System

In 2010, Facebook automatically identifies people who appear in photos shared by its users. face recognition system had introduced. With this feature, when you upload new photos and videos, it detects people in the media. labeling suggestion was offering. In the future, the system is dependent on software that both identifies accounts impersonating someone else and explains the photos to visually impaired users. welding had done.

However, this facial recognition system also addresses many privacy concerns, government investigations, and many other issues. along with was bringing With a meta-official statement, it’s describing the facial recognition system that has been around for ten years. this month will turn it off and all face scan data will wipe announced.

Meta explained:

Although facial recognition technology is sometimes useful to users in terms of security, there were too many instances of abuse. Although Facebook still sees the feature as a powerful tool concerns in society announced that they have decided to remove the feature because they are considering it.

With the announcement made on Meta’s official website, Facebook’s facial recognition system was announced this month. will lift and individual facial recognition templates of more than one billion registered so far. wiper announced. This change will also affect Automatic Alt Text (ATT), which creates an image description for visually impaired people. In the alternative texts, there is no longer any information about the identities of the people in the photos. information will not be given, it will continue to work as it is outside of it.