What Facebook's facial recognition feature means for you


  • TECH
  • Saturday, 28 Apr 2018

This means Facebook could soon be automatically tagging you in photos and videos, rather than a friend tagging you first.

Facebook is planning to reintroduce its facial recognition feature in Europe and Canada. That means Facebook could soon be automatically tagging you in photos and videos, rather than a friend tagging you first.

Europe is only now getting the function after it was turned off in 2012 due to regulatory issues. But in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal which saw 87 million Facebook users' data leaked, is this function something users should be concerned about?

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