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 ...

Apple has been granted a patent (number 11,113,510) for “virtual templates for facial recognition.” It’s for the Face ID feature on iPhones and iPads — and perhaps, eventually, for the Mac. Per the ...

A German privacy regulator is astonished that Facebook has added facial recognition to a proposed new privacy policy it published on Thursday. “It is astonishing to find the facial recognition again ...

Starting today, Facebook users will have more control over the ways the social network uses facial recognition software to analyze their photos. The company announced the change in a press release ...

Facebook said Tuesday it would drastically scale back its facial recognition system and delete more than 1 billion users' facial templates after years of mounting criticism over the company's ...

Facebook is closing the book on its facial recognition system due to "growing concerns" about the technology's use. As for why, Pesenti explained "there are many concerns about the place of facial ...