Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, on Tuesday announced that it will be putting an end to its face recognition system, shutting down one of the most widely-used facial recognition technologies.

The company announced that this change will impact more than a third of Facebook’s daily active users, which is more than 600 million accounts.

With the end of this system, Facebook will no longer automatically recognize people’s faces in photos or videos. The company said it will delete the facial template it has for any users who had previously opted into its face recognition setting. The change, however, will also impact the automatic alt text technology that the company uses to describe images for people who are blind or visually impaired.

“The many specific instances where facial recognition can be helpful need to be weighed against growing concerns about the use of this technology as a whole,” the company said in a blog post. “There are many concerns about the place of facial recognition technology in society, and regulators are still in the process of providing a clear set of rules governing its use. Amid this ongoing uncertainty, we believe that limiting the use of facial recognition to a narrow set of use cases is appropriate.”

This is breaking news. Please check back for updates.