A House lawmaker co-sponsoring landmark privacy legislation on Wednesday condemned Facebook’s inclusion of automated facial recognition technology on its platform on a default basis.“Requiring users to disable this feature after they’ve already been included by Facebook is no substitute for an opt-in process,” Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass. said in a press statement issued Wednesday. “If this new feature is as useful as Facebook claims, it should be able to stand on its own, without an automatic sign-up that changes users’ privacy settings without their permission.”
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