Facebook seeks facial recognition consent in EU and CanadaFacebook has started asking European and Canadian users to let it use facial recognition technology to identify them in photos and videos. Facebook originally began face-matching users outside Canada in 2011, but stopped doing so for EU citizens the following year after protests from regulators and privacy campaigners. The new request is one of several opt-in permissions being rolled out in advance of a new data privacy law. The social network is also facing a class-action lawsuit in the US for deploying the facial recognition technology there without users' explicit consent. "In particular, the Irish DPC is querying the technology around facial recognition and whether Facebook needs to scan all faces - ie those without consent as well - to use the facial recognition technology.

Source: VietNamNet News April 18, 2018 06:56 UTC