Social network Facebook has introduced tools for users to ‘better manage their identity on Facebook using face recognition.’
According to Joaquin Candela, Director, Applied Machine Learning, FB, these tools will be powered by the same technology the social network had used to suggest friends users may want to tag in photos or videos.
The new features introduced today will help users find photos that they were not tagged in & help them detect when others might be attempting to use users’ images as their profile picture. Among other things, there’s also a tool now for people who are visually impaired to know more about who is in the photos they encounter on Facebook.
To make it easier to manage face recognition through a simple setting, FB has paired these tools with a single “on/off” control. If your tag suggestions setting is currently set to “none,” then your default face recognition setting will be set to “off” and will remain that way until you decide to change it.
Here’s what the official blog post said:
Know When You Appear in Photos on Facebook
Now, if you’re in a photo and are part of the audience for that post, we’ll notify you, even if you haven’t been tagged. You’re in control of your image on Facebook and can make choices such as whether to tag yourself, leave yourself untagged, or reach out to the person who posted the photo if you have concerns about it. We always respect the privacy setting people select when posting a photo on Facebook (whether that’s friends, public or a custom audience), so you won’t receive a notification if you’re not in the audience.
