Facebook ends face recognition and deletes one billion templates
Meta announced that Facebook would shut down automatic face recognition and delete more than one billion individual facial templates, affecting over a third of daily active users.
AWAY FROM DOOM55confidence 95/100
Why it moved the index
Retiring one of the world's largest deployed face-recognition systems and deleting its biometric templates materially reduced surveillance and misuse exposure at scale. Meta retained other potential facial-recognition uses, limiting the control improvement.
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- R1Away 55 · confidence 95
New November 2021 large-scale facial-recognition retirement absent from the durable corpus.
12 Aug 2026