Anonymous Coward User ID: 79296322 United States 11/02/2021 07:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Facebook SHUTTING DOWN controversial face recognition program, vows to delete over a BILLION templates Facebook SHUTTING DOWN controversial face recognition program, vows to delete over a BILLION templates2 Nov, 2021 17:44 / Updated 5 hours ago Citing “growing concerns” about privacy and ethics, Facebook has announced it will stop using face recognition technology and delete more than a billion individual templates harvested so far from users who opted into the program. The decision comes as part of “a company-wide move to limit the use of facial recognition in our products,” Jerome Pesenti, Facebook’s VP of Artificial Intelligence, said on Tuesday. When the feature is discontinued, sometime “in the coming weeks,” more than a billion Facebook users who have opted in will have their facial recognition templates deleted and they will not be automatically recognized, Pesenti explained. [ link to www.rt.com (secure)] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 23740487 United States 11/02/2021 08:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Facebook SHUTTING DOWN controversial face recognition program, vows to delete over a BILLION templates Likely FB is providing the data to the gov under an IC program. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 11460596 United States 11/02/2021 09:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Facebook SHUTTING DOWN controversial face recognition program, vows to delete over a BILLION templates Don't worry ... the NSA already has all the faces and the template that are in the Facebook servers.
In addition the NSA has collected another 10 billion or so face pictures so it's template works even better than Facebook's did!!
The only one that works better than the NSA one is the Chinese one, and they not only have all the Chinese faces, but thanks to stealing Facebook's data have all of Facebook's data too!! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 14921983 United Kingdom 11/02/2021 09:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Facebook SHUTTING DOWN controversial face recognition program, vows to delete over a BILLION templates Good |