01 Facebook宣布将关闭面部识别系统

Facebook will shutter its facial recognition system and delete data collected from 1bn users that has been used to identify them in photos posted on the platform, citing growing regulatory scrutiny of the field.

Facebook将关闭其面部识别系统，并删除从10亿用户那里收集的数据，原因是对该领域的监管审查日益加强。这些数据被用于在发布于Facebook上的照片中识别用户身份。

The move comes as regulators increasingly home in on the space, highlighting privacy, data security and algorithmic bias concerns, although legislation remains patchy in different jurisdictions.

此举出台之际，监管机构正日益关注这一领域，凸显对隐私、数据安全和算法偏见的担忧，尽管不同司法管辖区的相关立法仍参差不齐。

Facebook said it would continue to use facial recognition technology in certain instances, including verifying identities and unlocking accounts. Indeed, facial recognition technology could be vital to the company’s longer-term ambitions to build an immersive digital metaverse inhabited by photorealistic avatars.

然而，Facebook表示，将继续在某些场景下使用面部识别技术，包括验证身份和解锁账户。事实上，面部识别技术对该公司更长远的雄心至关重要，即打造一个由拟真虚拟替身居于其中的沉浸式数字元宇宙。