Free social media services are built from convenient features that become ominous only once you start to think about them, with one of the eeriest examples being Facebook’s ability to identify your face in a photo anyone uploads. By recognizing faces and suggesting users tag their friends and themselves in uploaded photos, the company has built what could be the largest name-to-face database in the world. Those tagging suggestions weren’t something that you opted into; they just showed up when someone uploaded a photo that might have your face on it. Facebook later gave some users the option to turn facial recognition off, but you had to go to your privacy settings to do so, and it kept the option to suggest that you’ve been tagged in a photo separate.
On Tuesday, Facebook announced an important change to its stance on face ID. Now, all facial recognition, including tagging, will be turned off by default for new users, who can choose to opt in. If you already had facial recognition turned on, you won’t receive a notice to turn it off.
read more at https://slate.com/technology/2019/09/turn-off-facial-recognition-facebook-default-how-to.html
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