European data protection officials are looking into whether Facebook violated any of their privacy laws when the company introduced a new facial recognition feature that automatically scans uploaded photographs and tries to match faces and tag them with names plucked from account holders’ lists of friends.Though the feature is relatively old, and was enhanced and rolled out last December in the United States, it has sparked off a flurry of surprised reactions across the internet after an influential British security blogger on Tuesday brought the enhanced feature to wider attention.
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