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Facebook, YouTube: Firm must stop scraping faces from sites

by AP Technology Writer
| February 6, 2020 8:30 AM

Facebook joined YouTube, Twitter and payment service Venmo on Wednesday in demanding that a facial recognition company stop harvesting user images to identify the people in them, which the startup does as part of its work with police.

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