Posted on 11/06/2021 9:58:59 AM PDT by upchuck
DENVER, Colo. — Facebook announced it's going to stop using facial-recognition software.
The software provides users with suggestions to tag people in photos and videos that are posted on the social network.
Facebook says it also plans to delete data it had gathered, which is associated with over a billion people’s faces.
“Why they are doing it is an interesting question,” said Casey Fiesler, a professor of information science at the University of Colorado. “Facebook is one of the last major tech companies to make this move.”
Business technology journalist Shibani Joshi said this decision is happening just as Facebook has been criticized for negatively affecting people’s mental health, along with privacy issues.
“Well, it is a step in the right direction in terms of safeguarding our privacy,” Joshi said. “The less that we give Facebook and other big technology companies, the better it is at guarding our privacy and security. If you opted in and many of us have, more than 640 million are using the facial recognition technology, the company says it will delete it and no longer collect more data."
Fiesler said this decision is a win both for privacy advocates and the legal world.
There are people who would like to see this technology regulated, but it’s not happening yet,” Fiesler said. “This is one of the reasons why these tech companies are distancing themselves from this technology and some of them have said this is in part of the lack of regulation. For facial recognition, generally a few conversations have been around a few societal harms. And a lot of this has been with known biases in facial recognition. There has been wrongful arrests in Black people because facial recognition has not been known to work as well for people that aren’t white.”
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Right..../s
This was all about calibrating their facial recognition software.
They say they're ditching it? I don't believe them. They put an awful lot of work into this.
No, they’ll just stop admitting to it.
No, they’ll just stop admitting to it.
Data are immortal. That may not always be the case but it’s the way to bet, especially data that might be worth something to somebody someday...soon.
The NSA has the data—and is collecting more.
Whether they call themselves “Facebook” or “Farcebook” does not matter—same result.
Why would anyone actually believe that a concern with this sort of powerful technology just ‘delete’ it?
Horseapples.
F****book is not deleting it. Go read the article, especially the next two paragraphs after the excerpted portion.
But they will sell the technology for big bucks.
“Facebook is Evil”
Perhaps, but Rand Paul has NO PROBLEM with them (or Twitter, or any other big tech)...as long as they are ‘private companies’ (regardless of whether they act as agents enforcing a Fascist police state).
Very ‘principled’ of him...
No doubt facebook will cease using facial recognition. “Meta,” however, will keep plowing ahead with its use and continued refinement.
Sure.
That's what they say.
What they do may be a whole nother thing.
There is righteous movement to turn fb goog amazon twit utube a d others into utilities and break them apart.. about time
There is righteous movement to turn fb goog amazon twit utube a d others into utilities and break them apart.. about time
That’s OK.
Everybody knows.
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