Facebook Suspends Facial Recognition in Europe
Monday, October 8, 2012 18:01
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arstechnica.com
September 24, 2012
Facebook has agreed to disable its facial recognition service for European users, Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner announced today. Facebook has come under fire in the EU for using facial recognition software to identify the people in users’ photos and suggest friends to tag in those photos. Germany recently called the practice illegal and demanded that Facebook disable the facial recognition service and destroy its database of files based on facial recognition technology.
Facebook said at the time that it didn’t have to, because the data collection is legal in Ireland, where the company has its European headquarters. But Irish authorities were conducting an inquiry of t
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