facial recognition by Facebook

[crp]

is going away, https://about.fb.com/news/2021/11/update-on-use-of-face-recognition/

 

i would have guessed a lot more facebook users would have opted into it. Wonder if real reason to stop it and remove it is that it took up too much disk space

 

[sunrat]

I would guess facebook is trying to save face after all the criticism of it's privacy invasions and focus on profits before people.

[V.T. Eric Layton]

My first question about this would be why were they storing facial recognition data in the first place?

[ebrke]

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More than a third of Facebook’s daily active users have opted in to our Face Recognition setting and are able to be recognized . . .

 

I agree, Eric, why the heck would so many people actually opt-in?

[abarbarian]

22 hours ago, sunrat said:

I would guess facebook is trying to save face

 

Well of course they are saving face otherwise the facial recognition would not work.