Meta shuts down Facebook’s facial recognition feature
Facebook is shutting down its controversial facial recognition system so your photos and videos will no longer be automatically detected. People who have enabled the Face Recognition feature will not be recognized in photos. Facebook has stated that it would remove the face recognition template that was used to identify them. The removal of the face recognition system, which it deployed ten years ago, is the social media giant’s first strategic step after changing its parent company to Meta. The feature has long been chastised by society’s watchdogs for its…