META announced on November 2, US time, stopping the facebook in Facebook in a few weeks and removing more than 1 billion users' recognition templates.The reason for the stop is concerns about face recognition technology and the uncertainty of regulations.
提供：Sarah Tew/CNETAccording to the company's blog post, more than one -third of Facebook's daily active users have turned on the "face recognition function."
"There are a lot of concerns about the use of facial recognition technology in society, and regulatory authorities are still in the process of providing a series of clear rules to manage the use.We believe that it is appropriate to limit the use of face recognition technology to a narrow range use case, "said Jerome Pesenti, a vice president in charge of artificial intelligence (AI) in META.
The company has incorporated the technology that recognizes images of users' faces into their products and controversial, but this movement is a major change in direction for the company.Until now, Facebook has been using the technology to automatically notify it when the users are in photos or videos posted by other users.However, concerns about privacy and human rights were increasing over face authentication technology, which converts face scan data into identical data.It has also been pointed out that the recognition rate for colored races is low as a problem with this kind of technology.For example, a survey conducted by the American Liberal Human Rights Association (ACLU) using Amazon's technology developed that the Federal Diet was misunderstood that it would match the face of another person who had arrested.About 40 % of the people were colored.
With no restrictions by the federal government, some states and cities have decided to ban the use of face authentication systems by police and government agencies.On the other hand, in Illinois, a collective lawsuit that had been sued for the use of face authentication technology in Facebook's photo tagging functions.Was approved by the judge.The function that became a problem in this lawsuit will generate a tagging proposal by using the face recognition data obtained by scanning the images uploaded in the past to identify the person in the newly uploaded image.something like.The lawsuit was said to be a violation of the Biometric Information Privacy Act in Illinois in Illinois, without the consent of the user.
This article edited by Asahi Interactive for an article from overseas RED VENTURES for Japan.