It looks being on the net seems to be akin to be in a Bathroom with a spy cam.
People should be wary of posting personal/family photographs.
Story:
Facebook has rolled out its facial recognition technology to countries outside of the US, but has switched the feature on by default without telling its users first….
The Mark Zuckerberg-run company started using its facial recognition software in December last year for its Stateside users in a move to automatically provide tags for the photos uploaded by Facebook users.
The tech works by scanning newly uploaded pics and then identifies faces from previously tagged photos already stored in Zuckerberg’s internet silo.
When the software was introduced in the US late last year, Facebook pointed out that users could disable the function.
“If for any reason you don’t want your name to be suggested, you will be able to disable suggested tags in your Privacy Settings,” the company wrote on its blog post last December.
But now that the tech has reached other shores, Facebook clearly didn’t feel the need to alert its international stalkerbase that its facial recognition software had been switched on by default within the social network.
The “Suggest photos of me to friends” feature in question is located in the company’s privacy settings. Facebookers need to click on “customise settings” before being able to access the function and disable it, if they so wish….
“The onus should not be on Facebook users having to ‘opt-out’ of the facial recognition feature, but instead on users having to ‘opt-in’,” he said.
“Yet again, it feels like Facebook is eroding the online privacy of its users by stealth.”
The Register asked Facebook to comment on this story, but at time of writing it had not got back to us. ®
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/07/facebook_facial_recognition_on_by_default/
Related:
If you didn’t know Facebook added the ability for other users to tag your photos in a new way. It’s being called Facial Recognition. If you would like to turn it off Nick from All Facebook posted a step by step guide.
Facebook Expands Availability Of Facial Recognition Globally — Here’s How To Turn It Off.
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