# Facebook Shuts Down Facial Recognition

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/facebook-shuts-down-facial-recognition/
- Published: 2021-11-06T09:15:58-05:00
- Author: Curated by John Wysocki

Image credit: imageBROKER via Alamy Stock. Article by Jessica Davis. InformationWeek – November 2, 2021. The social networking giant formerly known as Facebook (that last week rebranded itself as “Meta”) announced that it will shut down the face recognition system on its flagship social network. This is the AI-driven system that enables automatic suggested “tagging” of people — adding names to faces based on the company’s software. Meta’s VP of AI, Jerome Pesenti, said in a blog post that the company will delete more than a billion people’s individual facial recognition templates. […] Click here to view original web page at www.informationweek.com Related articles: An Update On Our Use of Face Recognition – Meta Why Facebook Shutting Down Its Old Facial Recognition System Doesn’t Matter – BuzzFeed News Facebook will shut down facial recognition system – Reuters Curated by John Wysocki See Full Bio