Former chess champion Gary Kasparov told CNBC at a technology conference at the Web Summit that Facebook's decision to eliminate facial recognition technology was foolish. Kasparov, who is now an open opponent of repressive regulation, said it was shocking that companies in the United States and Europe were forced to comply with increasingly stringent regulations that made them abandon new features in their products and services.
"It's bowing to public anger." I personally think this is stupid for the simple reason. Some technologies may stop developing for regulatory reasons, but some countries will not. Any available technical feature, blocking it is meaningless. In the age of the global Internet, it's crazy to start forcing U.S. or European companies to follow these rules and abandon new features. "
Facebook has a long history of forcing its users to adopt new features they don't like; its facial recognition system is one such feature. It was introduced a few years ago, and while people were clearly notified at the time, it wasn't easy to disable it if they changed their minds halfway through, and people might even have forgotten that they had allowed it to run on their profiles in the first place.
This feature does have some nice features, but many people miss out on them as well, for example, its ability to provide better automatic text descriptions for people who are blind or partially have poor vision. Since disabling facial recognition, Facebook has asked users to organize their own text descriptions to help those who can't see clearly.
In addition, facial recognition features are used to notify users if their photos are uploaded to Facebook without their permission. This feature may be useful in situations where many photos are being used maliciously, but now that it has been disabled, ill-intentioned people can abuse photos and videos more.