Security News > 2021 > November > Facebook deletes 1 billion faceprints in Face Recognition shutdown
Facebook announced today that they will no longer use the Face Recognition system on their platform and will be deleting over 1 billion people's facial recognition profiles.
Facebook's Face Recognition system analyzes photos taken of tagged users and associated users' profile photos to build a unique identifier or template.
Now, a week after their rebranding as Meta, Facebook has announced that they are doing away with the Face Recognition feature and deleting all profile templates created by the system.
People will no longer be able to turn on face recognition for suggested tagging or see a suggested tag with their name in photos and videos they may appear in.
If you have opted into our Face Recognition setting, we will delete the template used to identify you.
Facebook says they will be shutting down their Face Recognition system and deleting the user templates in the coming weeks.