Facebook will turn off the face recognition system and delete the data

- Billions of people's face prints will be deleted from Facebook

- 640 million users use the face recognition system, but it is banned in some US cities

Menlo Park: Facebook said it would shut down the face recognition system and delete the faceprints of more than a billion people. The change is the biggest change in the use of facial recognition systems in the history of technology, Jerome Pesenti, vice president of artificial intelligence at Metana, Facebook's new parent company, said in a blog post. One in three Facebook users uses the Face Recognition setting. Removing it would eliminate the personal facial recognition templates of one billion people, he said.

He said the company was focusing more on the positive use of technology in view of the concerns of the society, especially as regulators have not yet come up with clear rules.

Facebook announced on Thursday that it was renaming its company. The company is focusing on the Internet's next thing metavarus. Now she is going to build technology based on it.

The company is currently going through a major crisis due to documents leaked by people like whistle blower Frances Hogan. Documents leaked to Hogan show that the company's products are harmful to people.

20 million Facebook users use face recognition. The company launched the system a decade ago.

In 2016, the company stopped using the user's face recognition software to automatically tag users by identifying them in the uploaded photo. The company faced a lawsuit in Illinois for that.

The use of face recognition software by the police is banned in some US cities and may not be used in some municipal departments. In 2014, San Francisco became the first city in the United States to ban the technology. Proponents of privacy and civil liberties have long warned against it.