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Facebook Facial Recognition Raises New Privacy Concerns
c0lo writes "Now might be a good time to check your Facebook privacy settings as many Facebook users are reporting that the site has enabled the face recognition in the last few days without giving users any notice. Once again, Facebook seems to be sharing personal information by default, instead on users having to 'opt-in'. Some other comments and an interesting reaction from Google and how to get around/disable it."
Facebook Admin 3: Hey check it out, I'm gonna reset itchythebear's notification settings again!
If what I just said sounded like a troll, it was probably just a failed attempt at humor.
If you want to nitpick, I have the perfect solution. Copy my previous post into a text editor. Substitute "Manager" for "Admin". Now you have your own perfect copy and can move on to the point I was making about their userbase.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Einstein
I know you're honest. You can't have been a facebook user for more than one night :) They'll reset and modify your settings soon enough, young one.
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holy jumpin jesus! they shold have called it FACEbook... oh wait