Connecticut’s Attorney General is concerned over Facebook’s use of facial recognition technology to identify users and has requested a meeting with Facebook officials to discuss ways to alleviate those concerns.
Attorney General George Jepsen said in a letter to Facebook earlier this week that the world’s No. 1 Internet social network appeared to have overlooked consumer privacy by analyzing the faces in photographs posted on the website and cataloging the recognition.
The new feature uses facial recognition software to identify Facebook users in photographs, links the photograph with the user’s name and stores the information in the company’s database without the user being notified. Prior to this change, users had to manually tag others in photos, and those identified were then notified of the tag.Read Full Article Here
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