[hungrigekatze]

Meta has no plans to discontinue the use of facial recognition though: https://www.vox.com/recode/22761598/facebook-facial-recognit...

The story of how Facebook's facial recognition capabilities came to be is an interesting one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepFace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face.com

I had no idea that Face.com's algorithm was/is able to ID ~97% of all faces 'in the wild'. Nor did I know that Face.com had opened its API to use by dozens (hundreds?) of companies back in 2007. I wouldn't doubt if there are knock-offs / clones / reverse-engineered versions of the original Face.com API floating around. API security and design - in 200x - wasn't what it is today.