Facebook Expands Availability Of Facial Recognition Globally -- Here's How To Turn It Off
Facebook's well known facial recognition system was limited to users in North America, but it went global over the past couple of days.
Facebook’s well known facial recognition system was limited to users in North America, but it went global over the past couple of days.
A Facebook spokesperson explained via email:
We launched tag suggestions to help people add tags of their friends in photos; something that’s currently done more than 100 million times a day. Tag suggestions are only made to people when they add new photos to the site, and only friends are suggested. If for any reason someone doesn’t want their name to be suggested, they can disable the feature in their privacy settings.
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