Facebook Criticized for its Facial Recognition System
The social network Facebook has begun to expand, Tuesday, June 7, the facial recognition system in the photographs, which facilitates the identification of persons therein. After a test phase last year in the U.S., the device is now available in the “key countries” where Facebook is implanted, said the social network. “When you want to upload photos of your cousin’s wedding, we will group all the images of the bride and her name suggest. Instead of writing sixty-four times, the only thing you have to do is click on ‘ Save ‘to annotate all the photos at once ” , says Facebook on its official blog .
The social network, which explains that a hundred million images are annotated every day, says that this feature can be disabled if the user wants, by changing the privacy settings of the profile.
MANY CONCERNS
The deployment of this technology also raises concerns, first because it seems to be made by default and must be turned off manually. For the computer security company Sophos , “Most Facebook users still do not know how to set privacy options, finding the entire system confused” .
Other systems, like Picasa, Google, and iPhoto, Apple‘s use of facial recognition, but the problem is more acute for a social network with more than five hundred million members, noted associations protection of privacy as the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). Quoted by the agency Reuters , Marc Rotenberg , president of EPIC, is also concerned that the personal data of users, such as email addresses, may be associated with photographs annotated in databases Facebook.
According to Bloomberg , the group of Article 29 , which comprises the supervisory authorities of personal data in Europe, will examine the new Facebook service. These suggestions are automatic “present many risks for users” , warns Gerard Lommel , a member of Article 29. British and Irish authorities have also decided to consider this system also reports Bloomberg.
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