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Facebook

will stop using the controversial facial recognition system that since 2010 allows

identifying people in photos or videos

published on the social network, in response to concerns about user privacy,

Meta

, its parent company

announced on Tuesday

.

The announcement comes as Facebook battles a major crisis following the leak in the United States of a large number of internal documents to the press, legislators and regulators.

"There are many concerns about the place that facial recognition technology occupies in society, and regulators are still in the process of providing a clear set of rules governing its use," Meta said in a statement.

"Amid this constant uncertainty, we believe it is appropriate to limit the use of facial recognition to a small set of cases," he added.

It is not clear when the changes will take effect, but it will be widely felt, as - according to the platform -

more than a third of users chose to use the

facial recognition system.

The modification "will result in the cancellation of more than one billion individual facial recognition profiles," the statement said.

Facebook just changed the name of its parent company to "Meta" in an effort to generate attention for its virtual reality vision for the future, attempting to take the focus off a plague of scandals.

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp

, which are used by billions of people in the world, will keep their names under the rebrand.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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