SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook has quietly expanded the availability of technology to automatically identify people in photos, renewing concerns about the privacy practices of the world's top ...

(Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected Facebook Inc's effort to undo a class action lawsuit claiming that it illegally collected and stored biometric data for millions of users ...

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 ...

After more than a decade of controversy, Facebook will halt its use of facial recognition technology. “We’re shutting down the Face Recognition system on Facebook. People who’ve opted in will no ...

Facebook announced that it will shut down the social service’s facial-recognition system, and as part of that will delete more than 1 billion people’s individual facial-recognition templates. For more ...

Three U.S. Democratic senators are demanding answers from Meta over reports that the company plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses.

In 2021, Facebook said it was scrapping efforts to build powerful facial recognition software into its then-nascent smart glasses, citing the tech’s glaring privacy and ethics concerns. Four years ...

Last week, Facebook finally launched its much-anticipated facial recognition software designed, at least they claim, to aid in tagging photos of you. Immediately, concerns over privacy were raised and ...