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The system no longer provides FB the same value it previously did. So they're taking it down, now that they've collected billions of images. Will they be deleti

The system no longer provides FB the same value it previously did. So they're taking it down, now that they've collected billions of images. Will they be deleting the trained models too? All artifacts and inferences? Hell no.

Yhippa 5y ago
They have then politicized it by referring to "regulators" and "regulations" several times.
YetAnotherNick 5y ago
"the social network will delete the face scan data of more than one billion users." I believe it because facebook has nothing much to gain by lying about this small thing(after all they still have all the tracking data) and hell lot to loose by lying this straight face among employees.
- badRNG 5y ago
  > and hell lot to loose by lying this straight face among employees. And if, in a year an employee speaks out and leaks that FB never deleted the data? What would happen then? I don't think anything would happen, they wouldn't lose much, and no one would be too surprised.
  - mechanical_bear 5y ago
    “We didn’t realize that our old archive data was retained. Whoopsie.”
  - ben_jones 5y ago
    Normally the cost of cognitive dissonance in tech is $200k/yr. Pay that and you will have a line out your door and around the block of engineers who want to work for you, no matter what you do. Fortunately Facebook pays for the Cognitive Dissonance Deluxe package which is about $250k-$400k year. They've got plenty of padding to mislead their employees right to their face.
- sixothree 5y ago
  Not. It does _not_ say "all users". Additionally, there's a lot of weasel words. It does not say they've stopped doing facial recognition. It just says they've shut down one program. They also specifically reference the "usage" of facial recognition, not the act of facial recognition. My guess is they are still being paid by governments to collect this data but are just not exposing it.

Yhippa 5y ago

They have then politicized it by referring to "regulators" and "regulations" several times.

YetAnotherNick 5y ago

"the social network will delete the face scan data of more than one billion users." I believe it because facebook has nothing much to gain by lying about this small thing(after all they still have all the tracking data) and hell lot to loose by lying this straight face among employees.

badRNG 5y ago
> and hell lot to loose by lying this straight face among employees. And if, in a year an employee speaks out and leaks that FB never deleted the data? What would happen then? I don't think anything would happen, they wouldn't lose much, and no one would be too surprised.
- mechanical_bear 5y ago
  “We didn’t realize that our old archive data was retained. Whoopsie.”
- ben_jones 5y ago
  Normally the cost of cognitive dissonance in tech is $200k/yr. Pay that and you will have a line out your door and around the block of engineers who want to work for you, no matter what you do. Fortunately Facebook pays for the Cognitive Dissonance Deluxe package which is about $250k-$400k year. They've got plenty of padding to mislead their employees right to their face.
sixothree 5y ago
Not. It does _not_ say "all users". Additionally, there's a lot of weasel words. It does not say they've stopped doing facial recognition. It just says they've shut down one program. They also specifically reference the "usage" of facial recognition, not the act of facial recognition. My guess is they are still being paid by governments to collect this data but are just not exposing it.