Facebook Quietly Brings Back Tag Suggest in Europe, But It Only Works on U.S. Users

Facebook has quietly brought facial-recognition technology back in Europe after disabling its tag suggest feature there in October 2012, but it only works on friends from the U.S. who have enabled the tag suggest option in their profile settings, according to a report by TechCrunch.

FacialRecognitionWoman650Facebook has quietly brought facial-recognition technology back in Europe after disabling its tag suggest feature there in October 2012, but it only works on friends from the U.S. who have enabled the tag suggest option in their profile settings, according to a report by TechCrunch.

Ingrid Lunden of TechCrunch reported that users in European Union countries who upload photos to Facebook with users registered in the U.S. who have enabled tag suggest will see those users tagged if their faces are recognized by the social network’s facial-recognition technology.

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