Facebook today added another dimension to its facial recognition tech, which they already use to suggest you the friends and family members on the social platform. If you were bothered by anyone using your photo in their profile pic, or album, you would have the power to easily stop them doing that.
Here’s how: Facebook would alert you of the uploads where your photo is picked by them (using facial recognition, what else) and give you an option to either tag yourself, untag yourself or have a dialogue with the person who uploaded the pic. Based on this, you are not getting power to remove or block access of the photo itself that was uploaded by someone else, but at least you can tell whether you want that photo to be online or not.
Same goes for the profile pic, too. Whether or not you are tagged in any regular or profile photo upload, Facebook will always tell you if your photo shows up on any other timeline than yours. Provided you have the feature turned on, which it will be by default unless you have the facial recognition turned off when the feature is launched.
In case you’re fine with Facebook as it is right now, and see this as an overload of notifications, well, you would be able to simply turn off this feature. Facebook says they would provide a very simple on/off toggle for this under settings because that is what their user feedback says. Which is alright.
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To see the photos that Facebook warns you about, you can go into Photo Review page, and react to all uploads notified to you that contain your face. You would be able to ‘Tag Yourself’, ‘Ignore’ and tell Facebook it’s ‘Not Me’. You would also be able to save the photo, share to external app/service, or report the photo to Facebook.
In other news, Facebook’s lighter app, Facebook Lite, today crossed 100 million downloads on the Play Store, which shows the love people have for their small and lightweight app.
