Researchers and privacy activists have spent years raising questions about the tech industry's use of face-scanning software, citing studies that found it worked unevenly across boundaries of race, gender or age.
“This method of on-device facial recognition, requiring no communication of face data with an external server, is most commonly deployed today in the systems used to unlock smartphones."Īpple uses this kind of technology to power its Face ID system for unlocking iPhones. “Facial recognition can be particularly valuable when the technology operates privately on a person’s own devices," he wrote.
Pesenti said Tuesday's announcement involves a “company-wide move away from this kind of broad identification, and toward narrower forms of personal authentication." Meta Platforms Inc., Facebook's parent company, appears to be looking at new forms of identifying people. She added that the move also demonstrates the power of public and regulatory pressure, since the face recognition system has been the subject of harsh criticism for over a decade.
Facebook introduced facial recognition more than a decade ago but gradually made it easier to opt out of the feature as it faced scrutiny from courts and regulators.įacebook in 2019 stopped automatically recognizing people in photos and suggesting people “tag" them, and instead of making that the default, asked users to choose if they wanted to use its facial recognition feature.įacebook's decision to shut down its system “is a good example of trying to make product decisions that are good for the user and the company,” said Kristen Martin, a professor of technology ethics at the University of Notre Dame.
More than a third of Facebook’s daily active users have opted in to have their faces recognized by the social network’s system. The company is also facing perhaps its biggest public relations crisis to date after leaked documents from whistleblower Frances Haugen showed that it has known about the harms its products cause and often did little or nothing to mitigate them.
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