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Facebook’s facial recognition: Consumer survey reveals mixed views

July 26, 2011

The majority of people in the US don’t like or don’t mind the Facebook’s new facial recognition feature, but less than one in five are positive about the new tool, according to a new survey.

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Market research surveys carried out by Valued Opinions show the new Facebook feature, called ‘Tag Suggestions’ has proved a controversial topic.
Valued Opinions ran an online poll which was designed to find out how current Facebook users view facial recognition with results showing 35% of American respondents don’t like the feature, 35% don’t mind it and only 16.5% of the respondents admitted to liking the new feature.
This new system allows Facebook to recognise someone the user knows, or the user themselves, in a photograph and ‘tag’ them automatically.
Users do have the option to deactivate this feature but complaints have arisen because members feel they were not sufficiently notified about the global launch.
The face tagging feature was introduced in the US during December 2010 and launched globally in June 2011.
The facial recognition feature means that Facebook is now embroiled in a privacy controversy as many privacy groups have filed complaints with the US Federal Trade Commission over Facebook’s automated facial recognition technology.
The feature was originally launched on the US only version of Facebook,but it has been recently rolled out to most of the social networks remaining 600 million users without prior notification.
While the feature only applies itself to newly uploaded photos, all users are automatically opted in to the feature, and therefore have to turn it off if they wish to opt out.
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