During this year Facebook preparing a major update for users of space European Union. Reintroducing one biometric functions that allows facial recognition of users in pictures and videos. Facebook Face Recognition she was involved in an experiment six years ago, but the legislation EU in terms of privacy and user privacy It led to the withdrawal of facial recognition functions.
In Umrah of talks was reached agree best practices for this functionality to be reintroduced for EU users.
Currently, Face Recognition is used by Facebook users outside the EU and Canada. Those who have activated this function can very easily identify the pictures in which they appear on the social network, even if they are not tagged in them.
To be honest, this would be more of an advantage than a means of violating privacy. With the facial recognition function, we can easily identify if another user of the network publishes pictures of us. In this way, it would be easier to remove identity theft on Facebook and Articles false.
Currently, there is no way for EU users to find out if a person publishes pictures of them on Facebook for various purposes. He only discovers his picture by chance on other Facebook pages or accounts.
The biometric function will also try to help people with visual impairments, offering the description of open photos.
In Europe, this function can be activated and deactivated at the user's discretion. When it will be introduced, users will be asked whether or not to give their consent for the biometric function to become active.
Facebook also takes into account the possibility that for users who have the biometric function active, their personal photos will be fully protected. Another user will not be able to publish on Facebook a picture in which other people appear, if they do not give their consent.
