The Facebook blogpost comes as the company faces a class action lawsuit in California over its decision to launch a facial recognition feature for US users in 2011. The “tag suggestions” feature, involves Facebook running facial recognition tech on uploaded photos to match them with other users automatically. But a class action suit representing Facebook users in Illinois argues that the technology breaches the law in that state. Now, however, the company intends to relaunch facial recognition features across the EU, building on an approach that it trialled in America. Facebook users will see a splash screen that informs them that they are reviewing “an option for turning on face recognition”.

Source: The Guardian April 17, 2018 10:18 UTC