Conn. AG Raises Concerns Over Facebook's Face Recognition
Amid growing concern by advocacy groups that Facebook’s “tag suggestions” face-recognition feature may compromise consumer privacy, Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen has requested a meeting with officials at the social media giant.
Although billed as a device to promote photo sharing and tagging among its users, the feature may have omitted a critical opt-in that requires users to affirmatively consent before Facebook can use those images, PC World reported.
The move prompted complaints and warnings from the Electronic Privacy Information Center, European Union regulators and security firm Sophos, among others, that the feature converts the photos uploaded by Facebook users into an image identification system under the sole control of Facebook, without the knowledge or consent of Facebook users.
