Facebook Deletes Facial-Recognition Data In Europe

Facebook’s tag suggest feature and use of facial-recognition technology is moving in different directions on opposite sides of the globe, as the social network reintroduced the feature in the U.S. last week, while at the same time deleting all facial-recognition data in Europe, where tag suggest has been disabled since last October.

Facebook’s tag suggest feature and use of facial-recognition technology is moving in different directions on opposite sides of the globe, as the social network reintroduced the feature in the U.S. last week, while at the same time deleting all facial-recognition data in Europe, where tag suggest has been disabled since last October.

IDG News Service reported that both the Office of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner and the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information in Germany confirmed Facebook’s removal of all facial-recognition data in Europe, with each agency having reviewed the social network’s source code to confirm their findings.

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