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Features Face Recognition on Facebook Violates Privacy

Features Face Recognition on Facebook Violates Privacy

New features are its facial recognition technology or facial recognition technology.This technology has long existed in a photo editing sites, like Google's Picasa and iPhoto belongs to Apple. Named Tag Suggestion feature was actually launched to accelerate the process of labeling a friend in the photo was uploaded on faceboook.Here's how these features work.
When users upload a new photo up, up will match the new photo is uploaded with an old photograph that had been tagged by the software 'identifier'. Up then will classify the same image and whenever possible, suggests the name of friends in the photo.By Tag Suggestion, Facebook users do not need anymore 'nge-tag' one on one every photo was uploaded which contains the same person because all can be done automatically.
Automatic identification technology owned up is deemed to have violated the privacy aspects of the Facebooker. One of the non-profit institutions which take care about privacy, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, worry the system will identify other information, including e-mail address of the Facebooker. Facebook is also criticized for having this feature enabled automatically on the user up, although not all of them.
Internet security consulting firm, Sophos, also met a lot of Facebook users who see the options active face recognition without any prior notice. Parties up to defend himself by saying that this service will only be active when a new image is added on Facebook. In addition, only those being my friend referred, and the user can disable this feature.
Facebook has long been criticized because it often involves changing the privacy setting. Well, if the service is already available for all users up and you do not want to activate it, you can tamper with the Privacy Settings. Way, click the "Customize settings", then under "Things others share, you'll see an option titled" Suggest photos of me to friends. When photos look like me, suggest my name. " Click on "Edit settings", then click "Disabled" if you do not want to face recognition technology that works. Click "OK" to end it. (Source: Facebook, Guardian / BANG)


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