ars technica
by Jon Brodkin- Aug 15 2012, 11:12am EDT
Says opt-out mechanism violates European Union law.
German data protection officials today accused Facebook of “illegally compiling a vast photo database of users without their consent” and demanded that the social network destroy its archive of files based on facial recognition technology, the New York Times reported.
Facebook says that it uses face recognition software to match users’ photos to others and suggest friends to tag in those photos. A user can prevent friends from seeing tag suggestions when they upload photos that look like that user. But this requires opting out through Facebook privacy settings, which Germany notes is a violation of European law.
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As A Matter Of Fact...
I believe that this is true, because just this morning as I was thumbing through my "spam" mail, I saw a headline saying that "someone" has set a new picture of me on my profile page on Facebook. I didn't bother to go any further than that, because I long ago closed my Facebook account because of one reason or another, and I wasn't about to open it back up to see what was there. I realize that it's only my opinion, but I feel that Facebook is a tool of the dark.
Thanks for this post. Perhaps posts like this will open the eyes of those who subscribe to Facebook.
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