Facebook says it will longer use its face recognition techlogy to identify users' friends uploed in photos. Up until w, Facebook allowed itself to identify your friends uploed in your photos using face recognition and automatically to suggest you to 'tag' m. Inste, Facebook w wants to replace its tag suggestions feature with its broer face recognition setting, which is used to identify people in various or use cases as well. Here is how Facebook wants to go ahe with its face recognition.

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New Facebook users will receive face recognition setting, which y can turn on. Face recognition setting will be off by default. Facebook users who h tag suggestions setting turned off will see a tice about face recognition and a button to turn it on or keep it off. Facebook was sued in Illiis over tag suggestion feature and a federal appeals court has ruled lawsuit can proceed. Facebook has detailed its implementation in its blog post

How it works

People with tag suggestions setting enabled should see a tice in ir news feed. Facebook has also been pushing out a tification, which res: " face recognition setting is w available to you". Facebook hopes that it should help its users learn how it works and how company uses face recognition. company said that a new option would be available for users so that y can disable settings.

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"People who newly join Facebook or who previously h tag suggestions setting will have face recognition setting and will receive information about how it works. tag suggestions setting, which only controls wher we can suggest that your friends tag you in photos or videos using face recognition will longer be available," said Srinivas Narayanan, Applied Research Le, Facebook AI.

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Facebook has also me it clear that it won't be using face recognition or any related data in case you don't have face recognition setting available. Besides, features like Photo Review will t be activated. Facebook users can still manually tag friends. However, Facebook won't suggest your friends tag you in any photo unless you have h face recognition turned on. In case you alrey have face recognition setting, you won’t receive a tice.

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Facebook reiterated that it takes all your privacy seriously and doesn't share your face recognition information with third parties. company also said it has been working with privacy experts, acemics, regulators and people on how it uses face recognition. Facebook said that it h taken eugh steps to update Settings clearer and users will have an option opt-out of settings. Also, users need t go to a separate screen to turn off setting. y can do it from tice itself.