Did you know that your mug shot is now automatically included in Facebook’s facial recognition system?
That means Facebook’s system will be able to recognize not only yours but the faces of its other 500 million to 600 million users worldwide. The company will be able to identify you simply by your face. Facebook stated in its blog that starting in just a few weeks, its system will scan all photos posted to Facebook and will offer up the names of the people who appear in the frame. All of Facebook’s users are automatically being added to the database.
The facial recognition feature is automatically turned on. Users who don’t want the service must go in to their privacy settings and manually opt out of it.
So, how can you disable this new “feature”? Just follow these steps:
- From your Facebook home page, click on “Account” in the top right corner, and then click on “Privacy Settings”.
- Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on “Customise settings”.
- Scroll down to the section titled “Things others share”. You will find a setting named “Suggest photos of me to friends”. Click on the “Edit settings” button.
- On the right side of the settings window, click on “Enabled”, and then click on “Disabled”.
- Click on “OK” to save the new settings.
