Facebook Is Cleaning Up Its Facial-Recognition Settings and Giving Users a Clearer Picture

Tag suggestions is being phased out

Facebook is phasing out its tag suggestions facial-recognition-powered feature in favor of the face recognition setting it began introducing in December 2017.

The move is most likely a response to July’s Federal Trade Commission complaint tied to Facebook’s record $5 billion privacy settlement with the FTC, which alleged that some 30 million people did not receive sufficient information about their ability to disable the facial-recognition tool that identified people in photos on the social network and offered tag suggestions.

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