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Facebook Stops Using Facial Recognition Following $650M Settlement

Facebook announced Tuesday that it is shutting down its facial recognition program.

As part of the closure, it will delete more than one billion users’ biometric data. This constitutes more than one-third of Facebook’s user base. Although the company will delete user data, it intends to keep Deep Face, the facial recognition software it developed.

Vice President of Artificial Intelligence Jerome Pesenti of Meta, Facebook’s parent company, stated that there were “[m]any concerns about the place of facial recognition technology in society, and regulators are still in the process of providing a clear set of rules governing its use. Amid this ongoing uncertainty, we believe that limiting the use of facial recognition to a narrow set of use cases is appropriate.”

Read the source article at JURIST

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