Facebook pushes ahead with controversial facial recognition feature in Europe

Just as Facebook faces a class action suit in California after gathering biometric data of users without explicit consent, it has reportedly started pushing European and Canadian users into giving its controversial facial recognition technology free reign to run rampant over their photos and videos. Facebook uses facial recognition software to automatically match people in photos your friends upload with the other billions of images on Facebook’s servers in which you might appear.

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