Facebook Facial Recognition Raises New Privacy Concerns 159
c0lo writes "Now might be a good time to check your Facebook privacy settings as many Facebook users are reporting that the site has enabled the face recognition in the last few days without giving users any notice. Once again, Facebook seems to be sharing personal information by default, instead on users having to 'opt-in'. Some other comments and an interesting reaction from Google and how to get around/disable it."
Re:How This Happens: (Score:4, Funny)
Facebook Admin 3: Hey check it out, I'm gonna reset itchythebear's notification settings again!
Re:How This Happens: (Score:4, Funny)
If you want to nitpick, I have the perfect solution. Copy my previous post into a text editor. Substitute "Manager" for "Admin". Now you have your own perfect copy and can move on to the point I was making about their userbase.
Re:Made a facebook account last night (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Shit, this is what I feared (Score:4, Funny)
[ ] Would you like to use our handy app to contact this person?
[ ] Would you like to create a Facebook page for this person and add all this data to the page with Just One Handy click?
{Submit} {Cancel} (Wait, that's actually also a submit button, but never mind. Just say yes.)
Social network with Facial Recognition! (Score:5, Funny)