The change affects more than a third of Facebook’s daily users who had facial recognition turned on for their accounts, according to the company. The company has also not ruled out incorporating facial recognition technology into future products, Mr. Grosse said. “Corporate use of face surveillance is very dangerous to people’s privacy.”Facebook is not the first large technology company to pull back on facial recognition software. Facebook’s facial recognition software has a long and expensive history. fined Facebook in 2019, it named the site’s confusing privacy settings around facial recognition as one of the reasons for the penalty.

Source: New York Times November 06, 2021 10:41 UTC