You can read the full story here, but we’ll give you the gist of it. Following Facebook’s ‘default’ setting for automated photo tags, a EU privacy probe has been launched. Why? It’s a privacy issue, users have to disable it manually, and oh yeah, it’s creepy.
It’s not like an Ex Google CEO said that facial recognition was too dangerous to implement…right?
And if you’re wondering exactly how Facebook does facial recognition, we’ve got an artist’s rendering of what the process looks like:
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