Privacy experts hailed the announcement from Facebook as a step in the right direction. Civil rights experts have also criticized China's use of the technology to track Uyghur Muslims in the name of preventing terrorism. Racial bias in the use of facial recognition technology is another concern because it can misidentify Black and Brown faces at substantially higher rates than their White counterparts. An August report from the Government Accountability Office found that 18 of the 24 federal agencies surveyed reported using facial recognition software and at least ten planned to expand its use by 2023.
While AAT will still be able to recognize how many people are in a photo, it will no longer use facial recognition to identify each user in the photo.įacial recognition technology has advanced in recent years but its growing use by law enforcement agencies has fueled calls for regulation from privacy experts. The company said it AAT currently identifies people in approximately 4% of photos. "The ability to tell a blind or visually impaired user that the person in a photo on their News Feed is their high school friend, or former colleague, is a valuable feature that makes our platforms more accessible," Presenti said, "but it also depends on an underlying technology that attempts to evaluate the faces in a photo to match them with those kept in a database of people who opted-in."Īutomatic Alt Text, or AAT, is a technology that Facebook uses to create image descriptions for visually impaired and blind users. The company will move "narrower forms of personal authentication" in the future, he added.īut there are "difficult tradeoffs," Presenti said, and the changes could negatively impact the visually impaired community. "These are places where facial recognition is both broadly valuable to people and socially acceptable, when deployed with care," Presenti said. Users will be able to gain access to locked accounts or verifying their identify for financial products. While the new change means Meta's technology will no longer automatically recognize if a user's face appears in a photo or video posted on the platform, Facebook will still use the system in a limited capacity.
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