Facebook changes privacy settings for millions of users:facial recognition is enabled

[Jack]

When Facebook revealed last year it was introducing facial recognition technology to help users tag their friends in photographs, they gave the functionality to North American users only.

Most of the rest of us found the option in our privacy settings was "not yet available", which meant we could neither enable or disable it. We simply had to wait until Facebook decided to roll it out to our account.

Well, now might be a good time to check your Facebook privacy settings as many Facebook users are reporting that the site has enabled the option in the last few days without giving users any notice.

There are billions of photographs on Facebook's servers. As your Facebook friends upload their albums, Facebook will try to determine if any of the pictures look like you. And if they find what they believe to be a match, they may well urge one of your Facebook friends to tag it with your name.

The tagging is still done by your friends, not by Facebook, but rather creepily Facebook is now pushing your friends to go ahead and tag you.

Remember, Facebook does not give you any right to pre-approve tags. Instead the onus is on you to untag yourself in any photo a friend has tagged you in. After the fact.

More details - link

 

[Vextor]

This is nothing compared to what happenend to this German Teenager. It really shows how bad Facebook's
security is.
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/06/07/how-facebook-ruined-thessa-16th-birthday-party/

 

[Jack]

This is nothing compared to what happenend to this German Teenager. It really shows how bad Facebook's
security is.
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/06/07/how-facebook-ruined-thessa-16th-birthday-party/

OMG this is EPIC!! :lolz:
The hole town was there!!

I've got a feeling that she let the "Anyone can view and RSVP (public event)" option ticked an purpose and for this exact reason ..
Of course Facebook should give Privacy by default ..but come on ,you as a user, can pay more attention on what you are doing.If you rely on others to protect you then eventually you'll be disappointed.

As for the new "facial recognition" feature....I think it's very very very creepy but their is a way to disable it ..