Facebook tries to revive Facial Recognition in Europe
Facebook hopes to test its tool on a sample of European user before considering to extend the system to the rest of the EU. Improvements have been planned so that the use of this technology does not come to face the RGPD. Facial recognition at Facebook is a thorny subject. This may be understandable: given positions sometimes controversy social network privacy and its business model based on advertising, we're entitled to be worried at the idea that Facebook can analyze and recognize the faces present on the photos. As reported by the Figaro, Facebook would like to test a new version of its functionality of facial recognition in Europe. It is already enabled in the US for several years and allows users to have a better control over photos of them uploaded on social networking: don't need a user let you tag on an image to be put to the aware of its upload on the social network. Facebook will you recognize and you warn whenever an image of you is put online on the network,...