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Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition program

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Mark Zuckerberg is the Chairman and CEO of Facebook. He testified at an hearing held by House Financial Services Committee, Washington, on October 23rd 2019.

Erin Scott | Reuters

MetaFacebook, the former company, announced Tuesday that it would end its facial recognition system. This will shut down one of the most popular facial recognition technology.

Facebook announced today that the change would affect over a third (or more) of its daily active users. This is over 600 million accounts.

Facebook’s face recognition system will be ended, meaning that Facebook can no longer recognize faces when they are displayed in photos and videos. Facebook said that it would remove any facial templates it had for users who previously signed up to its face recognition feature. However, the change will affect the automated alt text technology used by the company to describe images for visually impaired or blind people.

The company stated that there are concerns over the use of facial recognition technology within society. Regulators are currently working to provide clear rules for its usage. in a blog post. We believe it is prudent to limit facial recognition’s use to just a few cases in this climate of uncertainty.

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