"Facebook owner Meta restarts facial recognition tech in ‘celeb-bait’ crackdown "

Posted under: Web technologies
Date: 2024-10-21
"Facebook owner Meta restarts facial recognition tech in ‘celeb-bait’ crackdown "

Facebook announced on Tuesday that it is retesting its facial recognition program as part of a campaign against "celeb bait" scams. Meta shut it down three years ago due to a wave of privacy and regulatory opposition. Meta will enroll about 50,000 well-known people in a trial that automatically compares their Facebook profile pictures with pictures from alleged scam ads.

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