In the striking memo, the tech giant noted that the ethically-fraught feature should ideally be launched "during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns."

Great article. Per usual, meta is a horrible company filled with horrible people who make the decisions.

One decision we can be clear about—we are not building a central face database.

What we're seeing is the transition to techno feudalism. Capitalism's final insult was to privatize surveillance-state authoritarianism.

we are not building a central face database

I honestly cannot understand why the parent company of Facebook would actually release such a parody sounding response

What is “the Streisand effect”, Alex?

somewhat sure this won't fly under GDPR

though that might as weel end up in category "oh we did an oopsie haha! anyway here is our new ML model that can identify anyone! what do you mean? it doesn't store anyone's likeness you sillyy it's a just a little model"

Wow. Just wow.

Man, it's gonna be so funny when the solar storm hits