Wired reported in 2021 Facebook said it would stop using facial recognition technology to identify people in photos and videos and delete accompanying data on more than 1 billion people.[1]

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-drops-facial-recognitio...

I'd love to see a thorough audit of the company done to see whether they actually did this. I strongly suspect they did not actually delete that data.

> Do you know whether Facebook still stores that data?

Honestly I couldn’t answer that. I never really touched production userdata (mainly because it was scary and also it was in PHP or some horrid transpiled interface to PHP)

My gut feeling is that facebook doesn't throw data away unless its forced to. So its probably there on your graph somewhere.