Facebook tackles face-recognition privacy concern
Posted in: Legal, Privacy & Security at 27/07/2011 18:45
Facebook has made it easier for users to opt out of its controversial facial-recognition technology for photographs, an effort to address concerns that it had violated consumers' privacy.
The deployment of "Tag Suggestions" technology -- designed to speed up the process of labeling friends in photos -- had renewed concerns about how the world's largest social network with 750 million members handles privacy.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/07/27/idINIndia-58466120110727
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/07/26/uk-facebook-idUKTRE76P59J20110726
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/26/facebook-facial-recognition-privacy-complaints_n_910296.html
