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		flangola7 on May 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The First Social-Media Babies Are Growing Up–and T... Facebook purged all their face recognition data a few years ago. It's not even an available feature now.

mixmastamyk on May 27, 2023 [–]

That’s huge and I hadn’t heard. Something actually deleted. (Assuming it is not a PR stunt.)

flangola7 on May 29, 2023 | [–]

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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