Privacy Advocates Ask for FTC Investigation of Facebook Facial Rec
Monday, June 13, 2011 at 1:20PM 
Mark Zuckerberg has even more to worry about now.
On Friday, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) joined with the Center for Digital Democracy, Consumer Watchdog and the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse in filing a formal complaint to the Federal Trade Commission on the legality of Facebook's new facial recognition software.
The "unfair and deceptive" software examines newly uploaded photos and compares them to other photos in which you or your friends are tagged in order to make tagging suggestions. EPIC contends that "users could not reasonably have known that Facebook would use their photos to build a biometric database in order to implement a facial recognition technology under the control of Facebook."
The privacy organizations are hoping to put a halt to the Facebook facial rec, pending an FTC investigation. Or, at the least, make the software available on an opt-in basis.
In the meantime, drunken Facebook photo posters beware!
Reader Comments (4)
"users could not reasonably have known that Facebook would use their photos to build a biometric database in order to implement a facial recognition technology under the control of Facebook."
OH ya, can't they like use math or science or something to figure that out? fucking morons... how the fuck are they going to implement facial recognition without using your fucking face to build a god damn database, I swear... the shit that comes out of people's mouths.
This James Morgan chap is a clearly an articulate and reasonable man!
Dear James,
I think you may have misconstrued the message of this here article. The intent was to show that people do not want their faces store in a database without their consent.
Sincerely,
Papa Smurf
P.S. Your mom brushes her teeth with my dick!
Yeah I think its absolutely cool to be able to have face recognition on facebook.
Now my friends can recognize my facial expression when I want to take dump.