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FTC settlement orders Everalbum to delete facial-recognition models

The Federal Trade Commission announced a consent agreement requiring Everalbum to delete face embeddings and facial-recognition models or algorithms developed from users' photos, and to obtain express consent for future biometric use.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
AWAY FROM DOOM37confidence 92/100

Why it moved the index

The unanimous consent agreement imposed concrete deletion and consent obligations directly on facial-recognition models built from improperly used data, creating a meaningful algorithmic-disgorgement control. Public-comment and finalization steps remained, which bounds magnitude, while FTC records and exact-time reporting support high confidence.

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Assessment history

  1. R1
    Away 37 · confidence 92

    New January 2021 facial-recognition enforcement agreement absent from the durable corpus.

    12 Aug 2026
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  1. DoomBench assesses “FTC settlement orders Everalbum to delete facial-recognition models” as evidence moving away from doom, with magnitude 37 and confidence 92 out of 100 in the governance and control category.

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