Facebook Rolls Out Facial Recognition Worldwide
By Gilbert Falso :: 4:40 PM
Last year, Facebook implemented facial recognition in its photo albums, prompting North American users to tag their friends in pictures uploaded to the site. The feature was turned on by default, and users had to manually switch it off.
Now, Facebook has rolled this feature out across all geographies, and many Facebook users are finding that their privacy settings aren’t protecting them. As your friends upload pictures, Facebook’s facial recognition technology will try to determine who the people are in the pictures. If it thinks it finds a match, your Facebook friends will be encouraged to tag it with your name.
As with photo tagging in the past, users only find out that they have been tagged in a photo after it occurs, and must remove it if they do not want themselves tagged.
You can prevent your friends from receiving your name as a possible photo tag suggestion by following these instructions:
1) Go to your privacy settings, under “Account” in the top right corner, and click “Customize Settings.”
2) Scroll down to “Things others share” and look for “Suggest photos of me to friends.”
3) Click “Edit Settings” on this selection, and then “Disable” the function.
4) Click “OK” to confirm the change.
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