A new privacy option has been made available for users who don't want their faces being recognised, and is enabled by default. The decision to make facial recognition-based tag suggestions opt-out has may be a cause contention for Facebook users who would prefer that any potentially privacy-violating option be opt-in. The concern isn't the feature itself - opting out of automatic tagging doesn't stop friends from tagging you in photos, it only stops Facebook from prompting them to do so - but rather Facebook's 'public by default' attitude.Source: Hexus
Facebook adds automatic facial recognition for photos
Posted on Wednesday, June 08 2011 @ 19:49 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck