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Why is Facebook shutting down facial recognition feature, delete facial data of over 1 billion users?

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Facebook has announced that it is shutting down its Face Recognition system and will delete the facial data of more than one billion of its users. Facebook said more than a third of its daily active users had previously opted into the use of face recognition technology, that's more than 600 million accounts. Facial recognition has been available on Facebook since 2011.