Facebook Adding Facial Recognition to its List of Frightening Features [Facebook]

Dec 16th 2010
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Facebook has announced its latest plans to assimilate our lives- facial recognition . In a couple of weeks, the social network will scan pics you upload and try to identify your folks-then tag them. It’s OK, you’ll turn it off.

The feature will try to ” suggest the name of the friend” to your photos if it could find an appropriate match, or, if not, pop up a window so that you could name and shame them manually. [ Facebook blog ]

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