Tuesday, 19 July 2011

Facebook switches on new facial recognition software

Anyone uploading a number of photos with friends in them may have noticed the new "Tag Suggestions" system from Facebook.  It uses facial recognition software to identify people's faces within your photographs as the photos are uploaded.  It then groups the faces it recognises as the same and even suggests a person's name if they are a friend.  It's really quite eerie.

As always there has been a great degree of controversy about this - but it looks like Facebook has silently rolled this out after an initial trial in the US.  Once again users are opted-in to the feature automatically - but this setting can be changes within privacy settings.



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