Cybersecurity
Facebook’s Use of Facial-Recognition Tool Draws Privacy Ire
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When you are identified in a picture on Facebook, biometric software remembers your face so it can be “tagged” in other photographs.
Facebook Inc. says this enhances the user experience. But privacy advocates say the company’s technology -- which was shut off in Europe and Canada after concerns were raised -- should only be used with explicit permission.