META (former Facebook), deleted more than 1 billion templates to stop facial recognition function on Facebook

Meta (formerly Facebook) announced on November 2 (local time) that it will shut down the face recognition function provided on Facebook in 2010.The aim is to increase the trust of users in privacy protection when shifting to metavers, which can violate privacy.

During the next few weeks, the face recognition template (the unique number linked to the face data) is also deleted, and users who enable face recognition function cannot use related functions such as automatic tagging to photos."Part of the company's company -wide movement that restricts the use of face recognition in our products."

The company's face recognition function has been filed in a group lawsuit in 2018 that it violates the Biological Information Privacy Law in Illinois, and has been settled in February.The reconciliation ordered Facebook to pay $ 650 billion.

According to Meta, more than one -third of Facebook's DAU (daily active users) is enabling face recognition function.According to the latest business announcements, more than 640 million people use this feature, as DAU is 1.93 billion.

It will continue to develop face recognition technology, such as personal authentication that uses face data.However, "Many cases where face recognition may be useful needs to compare with the rise of concerns regarding the use of this technology as a whole."

By removing the face recognition template, the name of the person contained in the image will not be able to read the name of the image in the image audio conversion service for visually impaired since 2016.

Meta says, "All new technologies have both profits and concerns. We want to find an appropriate balance there. In the case of face recognition, its long -term role in society is public.It is necessary to be discussed among the affected people. We will continue to participate in the discussion and cooperate with citizen organizations and regulatory authorities that manually discuss. "

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