The Californian group, entangled in scandals about its economic model, also clarified that it would remove accumulated facial recognition data on more than one billion users.
Le Monde with AFP
This is a small revolution: Facebook announced Tuesday that it would no longer use, on its platform, Facial recognition that allows you to identify , since 2010, one person on photos or videos posted on the social network.
The Californian group, entangled in scandals about its economic model, also said that it would remove accumulated facial recognition data on more than one billion users.
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In a Long blog post , Jerome pesenti, vice-president of artificial intelligence at Meta, the new parent company of Facebook, written that the social network proceeds to this change because of “many Concerns about the place of facial recognition technology in society “. He added that the company always saw the software as a powerful tool, but that “every new technology brings with it a potential for benefits and concerns, and we want to find the right balance”.
“over a third of Facebook’s daily active users [640 million] have opted for our facial recognition parameter and can be recognized, and its suppression will result in the removal of more than one billion individual face recognition templates . “