Concerns with Facebook's Facial Recognition
Following privacy policy inquiries directed at both Apple and Google in the past few months, Facebook has now appeared in the EU's cross-hairs.
Back in December Facebook added a new feature which tries to automatically match faces with names and other data, gathered from user's page pictures. But according to UK, German and Irish privacy regulators, there's serious concerns that Facebook has not properly notified users of the changes in their policies, nor given them enough information to decide whether they wish to be a part of it. In fact it Peter Schaar, the German commissioner for data protection, said in a Financial Times piece "I do not think that Facebook?s action does conform to European and German data protection law?.
Facebook's facial recognition feature should get a much closer examination from the EU over the coming weeks.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/ffe3e...#axzz1Op7sNSqY
Back in December Facebook added a new feature which tries to automatically match faces with names and other data, gathered from user's page pictures. But according to UK, German and Irish privacy regulators, there's serious concerns that Facebook has not properly notified users of the changes in their policies, nor given them enough information to decide whether they wish to be a part of it. In fact it Peter Schaar, the German commissioner for data protection, said in a Financial Times piece "I do not think that Facebook?s action does conform to European and German data protection law?.
Facebook's facial recognition feature should get a much closer examination from the EU over the coming weeks.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/ffe3e...#axzz1Op7sNSqY
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This is rather concerning. Google and Facebook is the new Axis of Digital Evil.
Yeah, just as well Google didnt get their hands on Facebook - the we would be in trouble