Facebook suspends photo tag tool in Europe

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Facebook has suspended the facial-recognition tool that suggests when registered users could be tagged in photographs uploaded to its website.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19675172

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I didn't even realise how bad it was but thinking about it, it is really bad that it knew who people were in photos!

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[GommeInc]

Is it the whole of Europe or just paranoid Germany? The rest of the world knows it's not a breach of privacy when the tool doesn't know who you are, it only recognises who it thinks someone is in a photo. If it really knew who people were in my friend list, it wouldn't suggest the picture of my brown labrador was a picture of my best friend who has blond hair. A rather baseless court ruling by a bunch of bureaucrats who have nothing better to do with their time.