Thursday, August 4, 2011

Germany Says Facebook's Facial Recognition Is Illegal

Posted by samzenpus  
from the pictures-of-you dept.
fysdt writes"Although we think it's generally a pretty nifty feature, valid concerns over the misuse of Facebook's auto-recognition tagging have lead Germany to ban it entirely. That's right—Facebook in its current state is now illegal. The German government, which possesses perhaps the world's most adamant privacy laws as a result of postwar abuse, considers Facebook's facial recognition a violation of 'the right to anonymity.'"

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