{"id":963784,"date":"2021-11-03T17:59:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T21:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=963784"},"modified":"2021-11-03T17:59:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T21:59:10","slug":"facebook-claims-it-will-shut-down-facial-recognition-system-delete-billions-of-face-scans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-claims-it-will-shut-down-facial-recognition-system-delete-billions-of-face-scans\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Claims It Will Shut Down Facial Recognition System, Delete Billions of Face Scans"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffacebook-claims-it-will-shut-down-facial-recognition-system-delete-billions-of-face-scans%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=963784&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Tech giant Facebook, which has changed its name to \u201cMeta,\u201d recently claimed that it plans to shut down its facial recognition system this month and delete all of the face scan data of over one billion users it has collected from users for over a decade.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/02\/technology\/facebook-facial-recognition.html\">reports<\/a>&nbsp;that tech giant Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system, deleting the face scan data of over one billion users that has been collected over the past decade. The deletion of the system appears to signify a fresh start for Facebook which was recently rebranded as \u201cMeta.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18507186\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/facebook-meta-name-change-mark-zuckerberg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18507186\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/facebook-meta-name-change-mark-zuckerberg.jpg\" alt width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Zuckerberg introduces Meta (Facebook)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jerome Pesenti, the vice president of artificial intelligence at Meta (now Facebook\u2019s parent company) stated in a <a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2021\/11\/update-on-use-of-face-recognition\/\">blog post<\/a> that the social network chose to end the system due to&nbsp;\u201cmany concerns about the place of facial recognition technology in society.\u201d Pesenti added that Facebook saw the system as a powerful tool, but&nbsp;\u201cevery new technology brings with it potential for both benefit and concern, and we want to find the right balance.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5858327\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/iris-scanner-getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5858327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/iris-scanner-getty.jpg\" alt width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ian Waldie\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Facebook first launched its facial recognition system in December 2010, offering to help users save time by automatically identifying and tagging their friends in uploaded photos. As a result, Facebook has built one of the largest repositories of digital photos in existence.<\/p>\n<p>Facial recognition technology has come under scrutiny from privacy advocates due to its possible misuse. In China, authorities use facial recognition systems to track Uyghur Muslims, while in the United States law enforcement has used the technology to aid policing which has resulted in privacy issues and mistaken arrests.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s data was not sold to third parties but many still questioned the ethics behind collecting such a vast amount of personal data. When Facebook was fined $5 billion to settle privacy complications in 2019, the company\u2019s facial recognition tech was raised as an issue. Last year, Facebook paid $650 million to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/03\/01\/judge-approves-facebooks-650m-settlement-over-intrusive-facial-recognition\/\">settle a class-action lawsuit in Illinois<\/a> that accused the social media giant of violating a state law requiring residents\u2019 consent to use their biometric information.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/02\/technology\/facebook-facial-recognition.html\">the<em> New York Times<\/em> here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<\/i><i><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/lucasnolan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@LucasNolan<\/a>&nbsp;<\/i><i>or contact via secure email at the address&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"mailto:lucasnolan@protonmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">lucasnolan@protonmail.com<\/a><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giant Facebook, which has changed its name to \u201cMeta,\u201d recently claimed that it plans to shut down its facial recognition system this month and delete all of the face &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}