According to the latest information, Facebook is planning to close or shut down its face recognition feature amid growing concerns from users and regulators. The new company Meta has disclosed this new change will be rolled out in the coming weeks.
Under the new change, the company will stop using facial recognition algorithms to tag people in photos and videos. The company said that under this new change, the company will delete individual facial recognition templates of more than 1 billion people.
The company said in a blog post that more than a third of Facebook’s daily active users, or more than 600 million accounts, use face recognition technology.
According to the post, Facebook will no longer be able to automatically recognize people’s faces in photos or videos. However, this new change will also affect the automatic alt text technology. It is used by the company to describe the image to blind people. Facebook services that rely on the face recognition system will be removed in the coming weeks. This is happening due to the user’s security purpose and there are many cases running on Facebook that need to be solved.
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