After more than a decade of controversy, Facebook will halt its use of facial recognition technology. “We’re shutting down the Face Recognition system on Facebook. People who’ve opted in will no ...

Meta is weighing a facial recognition add-on for smart glasses; the feature is called Name Tag, raising stalking and data ...

Facebook announced that it will shut down the social service’s facial-recognition system, and as part of that will delete more than 1 billion people’s individual facial-recognition templates. For more ...

In 2021, Facebook said it was scrapping efforts to build powerful facial recognition software into its then-nascent smart glasses, citing the tech’s glaring privacy and ethics concerns. Four years ...

Amid the recent, dizzying advances in generative AI, it’s been easy to miss the slow but steady progress in facial recognition over the last decade. In the past few months, it has broken containment.

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States are increasingly clamping down on how tech companies digitally scan and analyze our most sensitive and potentially lucrative commodity: the faces, eyeballs and other "biometric" data of ...