Facebook announced Tuesday that it is shutting down its 10-year-old facial recognition system and deleting the face prints of over 1 billion people after coming under pressure for the program’s privacy implications and legal and regulatory risks.

The facial-recognition software would automatically identify and save the faces of people who were in other users’ photo albums and suggest that the person who posted the photo “tag” everyone else in them, thereby linking the people’s Facebook accounts to the image. Facebook has one of the biggest collections of digital photos in the world thanks to the software.