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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.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
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.

Assessment history

  1. R1
    Away 55 · confidence 95

    New November 2021 large-scale facial-recognition retirement absent from the durable corpus.

    12 Aug 2026

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