Apply enough pressure and even Facebook will bend.
Less than a week after Facebook was renamed Meta, he said that disables recognition person on Facebook due to "growing social concerns".
So those who have chosen the facial recognition system will no longer be recognized in video and photos. According to the company more than one billion people in individual facial recognition standards will be deleted.
The move also means that the Automatic Alt Text feature, which creates image descriptions for the blind and visually impaired, will no longer include the names of people it recognizes in photos.
The change will take effect in the coming weeks.
While it may seem like a huge victory for privacy activists, Facebook is likely to reactivate some of these features in the future when regulators stop working and decide what the company's future holds.
"This is great news for Facebook users," reports Electronic Frontier Foundation in response to the news, "and for the global movement pushing this technology."
Meta's decision did not come out of nowhere. Facebook is under pressure to limit face recognition technology from lawmakers, courts and privacy activists around the world, something a name change in Meta cannot fix.
Meta, in other words, decided to anticipate situations while leaving windows open for the future. So don't applaud Mark Zuckerberg who did the right thing. Credit the activists and lawmakers who pushed him to do so.