Face recognition feature raises privacy concerns

Expansion of Facebook to automatically identify people in photos has raised the privacy concerns of the worlds top social networking service.Many Facebook users are reporting that the site has enabled the facial recognition option in the last few days without giving users any notice. Users feel as if Facebook is eroding their online privacy. The photo-tagging suggestions are only made when new photos are added to Facebook and users can disable the feature in their privacy settings. Facebooks technology operates independently, analyzing faces across a broad swath of newly uploaded photos. Tag Suggestions feature uses facial recognition technology to speed up the process of labeling friends and acquaintances that appear in photos posted on Facebook. The social website is criticized for automatically enabling the facial-recognition technology for its users.