San Francisco: Facebook turns off his face recognition system, his parent company said Tuesday, changes that would have an impact on more than one billion users and those who emerged after serious concerns over privacy.
“More than a third of Facebook daily users have chosen to our facial recognition settings and can be recognized, and the removal will produce more than one billion individual facial recognition templates,” said the holding meta company in a statement.
In a blog post, Jerome Messent, vice president of artificial intelligence for Meta, said: “More than a third of Facebook daily users have chosen into our facial recognition settings and can be recognized, and the elimination will produce more than one billion individual facial recognition templates People.
“He said the company tried to weigh the cases of positive use for technology” against the growth of community concerns, especially because the regulator has not provided clear rules.
” Facebook about Face followed the announcement of Thursday that it changed its own name meta to focus on building technology for what was imagined as the next iteration of the Internet – “Metaverse”.
The company also faces the largest public relations crisis until now after the document leaks from Whistleblower Frances Haugen shows that he knows about endangering his products and often does a little or not at all for him.