Facebook to shut its facial recognition system and delete 1 billion faces
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What you need to know Facebook will close its facial recognition service this month. The closure will see more than a billion face scans deleted. Parent company Meta says the move is due to `the many concerns about the place of facial recognition technology in society.` Facebook says that concerns about privacy are behind the move. Facebook says that it will be closing down a facial recognition system that has been running for a decade, deleting more than a billion face scans in the process. The move, announced via blog post, comes as Facebook and new parent company Meta are coming under increasing pressure relating to privacy and the social network`s role in society. According to Jerome Pesenti, VP of Artificial Intelligence, the move will `represent one of the largest shifts in facial recognition usage in the technology`s history.` In the coming weeks, we will shut down the Face Recognition system on Facebook as part of a company-wide move to limit the use of facial recog...