This Wednesday afternoon Facebook’s engineer Justin Mitchell published a blog post publicizing a new product of Facebook expected to be introduced within the next few weeks, based on photos being uploaded at Facebook. This new upgrade titled as ‘tag suggestions,' is clear-cut simple; when a user uploads any new photo to their Facebook account, Facebook will automatically begin to use its own facial recognition software in the background to literally match faces in previously uploaded and tagged by the user. And as Mitchell wrote: “We group similar photos together and whenever possible, suggest the name of the friend in the photos.”
From this blog post he also conveyed his intention that privacy concerns will continue to spike. He repeated that Facebook understands as much and tries to resolve all the worries with the ‘opt-out’ disclaimer with this new feature, allowing any user who does not wants that their name appears to be suggested in photo tags can set their privacy settings page in that regards.
It has not yet been confirmed that this new to-be-released software of Facebook, is in-house built software or maybe purchased from a third party company. Upon inquiry the Facebook spokesman replied that “It’s pretty standard technology that is already out there.” He added that”Picasa and iPhoto are just a couple others that use facial recognition software.”
Neither has it been clear that if here there any specific time frame for the full roll-out nor not, though next week Facebook is expected to launch the update with 5% of its United States user base.
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