Editor’s Note: After this post was published, Facebook provided more specific details about how their face recognition system works. The following post has been updated to include the additional ...

Facebook is shutting down its facial recognition program and deleting more than 1 billion users' faceprints, a company official said Tuesday. The move means more than one-third of Facebook’s ...

At the end of the day, Facebook’s facial recognition technology is downright creepy. Opting out of the service doesn’t mean Facebook will stop trying to recognize your face–it just means ...

Facebook is ending use of facial recognition software, the company said in a blog post Tuesday, a major move by a Silicon Valley giant to step away from the controversial tech.

Facebook’s facial-recognition technology, as it currently exists, is pretty harmless. After all, not only is Facebook using it for benign purposes–tagging photos–but it’s just not very ...

Facial recognition technology is widely used and effective in law enforcement, U.S. agencies should lead the way in ...

Every time one of its 1.65 billion users uploads a photo to Facebook and tags someone, that person is helping the facial recognition algorithm. Its accuracy rate is said to be higher than the FBI's.

Facebook is now offering facial-recognition features to all of its users, but says it will keep the capabilities turned off by default.

The features will roll out to most Facebook users, except those where Facebook doesn't utilize face recognition technology, such as Canada and the EU. UPDATE: Dec. 19, 2017, ...