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Meta, with its new name, announced that it will shut down the facial recognition system that has been in existence
for Facebook for ten years and delete all stored data in order to limit the use of facial recognition across the company.
In 2010, Facebook introduced the facial recognition system that automatically identifies the people appearing in
the photos shared by its users. With this feature, when he uploaded new photos and videos, it detected people in
the media and offered tagging suggestions. In the future, the system was the source of the software that both
identifies accounts that imitate someone else and explains the photos to visually impaired users.
However, this facial recognition system brought with it many privacy concerns, government investigations and
many other problems. In an official statement, Meta announced that it will shut down the face recognition system
that has been in existence for ten years this month and delete all face scanning data.
Although facial recognition technology is sometimes beneficial to users in terms of security,
there were many instances where it was misused. Although Facebook still sees the feature as a powerful tool,
they decided to remove the feature because they considered the concerns it created in the society. With the announcement made on Meta's official website, it has been announced that Facebook will remove
the facial recognition system this month and will delete the individual facial recognition templates of more than
one billion people registered so far. This change will also affect Automatic Alt Text (ATT), which creates an image
description for visually impaired people. Alternative texts will no longer provide information about the identities
of the people in the photographs, and it will continue to work as it does.
