Wednesday 8 June 2011

Facebook Probed By EU For Facial Recognition Feature

Facebook has had a facial recognition system for awhile now. It’s part of a feature that helps users tag friends in photos and is by default turned off. Users must opt in to use it. But, recently the service went global, expanding beyond North America and the setting became activated by default. This development has alarmed regulators and has unleashed European Union’s data-protection watchdogs on the company.


The group, formed from EU’s 27 nations will study the measure for

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