Meta, the new name that Mark Zuckerberg has announced for Facebook, has decided to suspend the use of facial recognition on its platform. This was announced by the social media giant referring to the “many concerns about the role of technology for facial recognition in society “.”The control bodies are still preparing the rules to govern the use“of this technology, reads the announcement posted on a blog by Jerome Pesenti, Facebook’s vice president for artificial intelligence.” In this situation of uncertainty, we believe that limiting the use of facial recognition to limited cases is appropriate “, he added, announcing that the Face Recognition system will be suspended” in the coming weeks “.
The templates related to over a billion people will also be destroyed, over a third of the daily active Facebook users, who have chosen to adopt the system, which automatically notifies each time the user appears in photos and videos posted by others.