Facebook built face recognition app that let employees identify people

Battling several privacy issues, Facebook experimented with a face recognition app among its employees that allowed them to identify their colleagues and friends by pointing smartphone cameras at them.
The social networking platform admitted it built such an app which was never released publicly, and argued against its use to identify people.
Business Insider first reported on this, saying the app was developed between 2015 and 2016 but has since been discontinued.
“As a way to learn about new technologies, our teams regularly build apps to use internally. The app described here were only available to Facebook employees, and could only recognize employees and their friends who had face recognition enabled,” a company spokesperson told CNET on Friday.