Facebook shuts down automatic face recognition, deletes more than a billion saved faces

02 November 2021
This is a surprising move for such a data-loving company.

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  • 03 Nov 2021

Sure sure, hard to believe anyone would be foolish enough to believe this.

    Meta, 03 Nov 2021I'm sorry but can someone explain to me what "Fac... moreMeta is not a social network, hehehe love the sarcasm.

      I think its a good step my zuck, i never used it once and i think there should be lot of other changes not only on fb but all social media and lets say that there should be no numbers i mean no number of views or likes or dislikes or comments, no numbers shown by anyone, u can read comments see who liked it and count it urself but no numbers showed. To tell u the truth i got the idea of repling on comments in fb before it was there on fb. I swear, i thought abt that before it happened and i was like wow. 😳👍

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        • 03 Nov 2021

        I'm sorry but can someone explain to me what "Facebook" is? I've only used social media network like Meta.

          Come to think about it, that feature never seems to do its job finding out photos from other profiles with me in it rather well. In my case, it did detect my face from a picture of my college lecturer, who isn't on my Friends list, once... and that's about it. It's rather useless if you ask me, hence why I turned it off a few months later.

            Android.Authority, 03 Nov 2021Facebook also once asked people to submit their nudes, so t... moreYea. I wonder when somebody literally shows news about Facebook being exposed online to literally zuckerberg I bet the excuses he is going to make. Or imagine if he literally just smashes thta guy phone right there lol.

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              • 03 Nov 2021

              Anonymous, 03 Nov 2021Cough Cough...They just made is close source... cough coughI didn't know it was open source before...

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                • 03 Nov 2021

                Cough Cough...They just made is close source... cough cough

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                  • 03 Nov 2021

                  Anonymous, 03 Nov 2021Probably their AR headset is now taking your retina scan lolAnd spying in your house

                    Good riddance...

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                      • 03 Nov 2021

                      RealLifePhones, 03 Nov 2021Yeah now that they've trained their powerful face reco... moreProbably their AR headset is now taking your retina scan lol

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                        • 03 Nov 2021

                        Facebook, Apple and Google need to be broken up. Maybe we'll get rid of the first two one day.

                          Anonymous, 03 Nov 2021Of course they do. There's no new technology that is n... moreFacebook started around the same time when DARPA shut down a program called "Lifelog".
                          Isn't it such a sweet coincidence?

                            Dudenoway, 03 Nov 2021Facebook is more than what u imagine, my friend. It will kn... moreFacebook also once asked people to submit their nudes, so they can help remove it, if anybody posts them online without your permission. 😁🙃🤣
                            I wonder how many people fell for that...

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                              • 03 Nov 2021

                              Simply put a password your phone and keep Facebook logged on. Nobody can unlock it. You can unlock it and open your Facebook instantly.

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                                • 03 Nov 2021

                                Interesting. I bet they had all that data stored on old-school data sets that are no longer valuable in an era where code base is kore fluid.

                                  Well the "deletion" may have happened but all that data were now useless after extracting information/patterns from them which were now a totally different form of data. IMO, those deleted data were useless data anyways the same way people delete videos they downloaded after consuming them.

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                                    • 03 Nov 2021

                                    This is all a deliberate tactic to gain trust of people in their new "metaverse"
                                    Ofc this is all nonsense. It's now automated in the background instead of the user seeing it so that the user can feel "safe"

                                      kek, 03 Nov 2021"Delete" in FB argon means its not accesible by u... moreTotally agree with you.
                                      Since this is FB we're talking about, and we have no means to confirm their claim, so we should assume it that way.

                                        Ofc they have saved it. Considering how it's impossible for databook (i.e spy book) to delete nay of your data. Literally I just said this to my sister and she said Google spies on you too. And now this is true but I tried explaining to her that Facebook was literally caught somehow wirelessly linking to a phone near you if that phone does thav Facebook to still somehow get the data of that person just so they get all thier monehhh

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