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by flangola7 1115 days ago
Facebook purged all their face recognition data a few years ago. It's not even an available feature now.
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mixmastamyk 1115 days ago
That’s huge and I hadn’t heard. Something actually deleted. (Assuming it is not a PR stunt.)
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flangola7 1114 days ago
It was when privacy laws started forming and the EU was beginning to really push IIRC. I don't think it was PR, they probably saw they were painting a giant target on themselves as long as they kept that functionality.
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