Regulator In Hamburg, Germany, Still Squawking Over Facebook, Facial Recognition
Facebook appeared to have settled concerns within the European Union over its use of facial-recognition technology with Friday’s announcement of an agreement between the social network and Ireland’s Office of the Data Protection Commissioner, but the memo apparently never made it to Hamburg, Germany.
Facebook appeared to have settled concerns within the European Union over its use of facial-recognition technology with Friday’s announcement of an agreement between the social network and Ireland’s Office of the Data Protection Commissioner, but the memo apparently never made it to Hamburg, Germany.
TechCrunch reported that the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information issued an administrative order against Facebook that same day, ordering the social network to alter its tag suggest facial-recognition to comply with EU standards, retroactively and in the future, and saying:
The company has to make sure that biometric profiles of its already registered users will only be created and stored with their active consent.
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