Facebook Makes It Easier To Opt Out Of Facial Recognition

Facebook’s facial recognition system was so intrusive, the EU felt it necessary to investigate it for privacy violations. While Facebook has always allowed you to turn it off, it’s always been a bit fiddly — until now. [Reuters]

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    Terry

    Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 3:26 PM

    ummm.Turn the camera off?

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      Kenan

      Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 4:55 PM

      “Facial Recognition” as in, it would look at photos from your profile and scan your face, and say a friend uploads some photos from the weekend. The facial recognition algorithm would then go through those photos and tag you in any photos it can find your face in.

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        Esspytood

        Friday, July 29, 2011 at 7:16 AM

        so any pictures of the great unclean one from Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War II, or berk from The Trap Door…

        well…

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    Sicarius123

    Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 7:45 PM

    Fuck people shit me off.

    I love this feature, makes it so much easier to upload photo’s.

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