{"id":129863,"date":"2021-11-02T11:23:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T18:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/facebook-citing-societal-concerns-plans-to-shut-down-facial-recognition-system"},"modified":"2021-11-02T11:23:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T18:23:39","slug":"facebook-citing-societal-concerns-plans-to-shut-down-facial-recognition-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/facebook-citing-societal-concerns-plans-to-shut-down-facial-recognition-system","title":{"rendered":"Facebook, Citing Societal Concerns, Plans to Shut Down Facial Recognition System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facebook-citing-societal-concerns-plans-to-shut-down-facial-recognition-system2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook plans to shut down its decade-old facial recognition system this month, deleting the face scan data of more than one billion users and effectively eliminating a feature that has fueled privacy concerns, government investigations, a class-action lawsuit and regulatory woes.<\/p>\n<p>Jerome Pesenti, vice president of artificial intelligence at Meta, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/28\/technology\/facebook-meta-name-change.html\" title=\"\">Facebook\u2019s newly named parent company<\/a>, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2021\/11\/update-on-use-of-face-recognition\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said in a blog post<\/a> on Tuesday that the social network was making the change because of \u201cmany concerns about the place of facial recognition technology in society.\u201d He added that the company still saw the software as a powerful tool, but \u201cevery new technology brings with it potential for both benefit and concern, and we want to find the right balance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The decision shutters a feature that was introduced in December 2010 so that Facebook users could save time. The facial-recognition software automatically identified people who appeared in users\u2019 digital photo albums and suggested users \u201ctag\u201d them all with a click, linking their accounts to the images. Facebook now has built one of the largest repositories of digital photos in the world, partly thanks to this software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook plans to shut down its decade-old facial recognition system this month, deleting the face scan data of more than one billion users and effectively eliminating a feature that has fueled privacy concerns, government investigations, a class-action lawsuit and regulatory woes. Jerome Pesenti, vice president of artificial intelligence at Meta, Facebook\u2019s newly named parent company, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1412,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-privacy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}