German Regulator Takes Aim At Facebook Facial Recognition
August 3, 2011 by admin
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SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)–A German regulator has asked Facebook to disable the social-networking service’s photo-tagging feature, arguing that its use of facial-recognition software to compile a massive archive of photos may run afoul of European Union privacy laws.
However, a Facebook spokesman countered on Wednesday that the Palo Alto, Calif., company “firmly rejects” the Hamburg Data Protection …