EU May Examine Facebook's Face Recognition Feature
European Union data-protection regulators have reportedly said that they are launching a probe of Facebook's facial recognition feature, a day after Sophos pointed out that the social network might have reset users' default settings for the feature.
European Union data-protection regulators have reportedly said that they are launching a probe of Facebook‘s facial recognition feature, a day after Sophos pointed out that the social network might have reset users’ default settings for the feature.
Gerard Lommel, a Luxembourg member of the so-called Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, told Bloomberg Businessweek that “a group of privacy watchdogs drawn from the EU’s 27 nations” will examine the feature for possible privacy violations.
While Facebook provided us with no comment on the matter, a company spokesperson told
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