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Breaking News: Facebook plans to delete face scan data from over 1 billion users, shutting down a facial recognition system that became a privacy headache.

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Facebook plans to delete face scan data from over 1 billion users, shutting down a facial recognition system that became a privacy headache.

Tuesday, November 2, 2021 1:00 PM EST

The decision shutters a feature that was introduced in December 2010 that automatically identified people who appeared in users' digital photo albums.

It ended up fueling privacy concerns, government investigations, a class-action lawsuit and regulatory woes.

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