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Meta is taking the facial recognition out of Facebook.
The company said last week that it will shut down the facial recognition system on Facebook as part of an overall initiative to limit the use of the technology in its products.
However, facial recognition is still in play as the company moves into the metaverse, with policy communications manager Jason Grosse telling Rebecca Heilweil of Recode last week that Meta is exploring ways to incorporate biometrics into its metaverse efforts and keeping DeepFace, the algorithm that powers its photo tagging feature.
Grosse told Heilweil, “We believe this technology has the potential to enable positive use cases in the future that maintain privacy, control and transparency, and it’s an approach we’ll continue to explore as we consider how our future computing platforms and devices can best serve people’s needs.
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