San Francisco - Connecticut Attorney General is very concerned about the application of facial recognition technology is used Facebook to identify users and has asked to meet with officials to discuss the way up to ward off concerns. Attorney General George Jepsen said in a letter to Facebook earlier this week that the social networking world number one seemed to ignore the privacy of consumers by analyzing the faces in the photographs are mounted and the catalog introduction.
Alert of Facebook's Facial Recognition Technology
"Consumers should be aware that digital images are combined with the technology they face up to personal information in their Facebook profiles," Jepsen wrote in a letter released by his office on Thursday U.S. time.
"The potential use of facial recognition technology in this scale is unclear but must be considered," the letter said.
The letter was delivered following the widespread deployment of technology "Tag Suggestions", which scans the photos uploaded the users, by comparing the faces in the photos with the photos previously uploaded to see a match with the faces of people in the photos.
If found fit, Facebook gives green light to people to upload photos and invite them to download the tag "or introducing people in the photo.
Facebook, which last December announced that they plan to introduce the service in the United States, said last week that the feature is available in many countries.
The gap between the wide notification technology with the introduction of automated technologies in setting up users, has raised concerns among privacy advocates who say it should be up to the user.
Last week, a group of privacy advocacy organization filed a complaint with the U.S. Government Trade Commission to require the holding of the investigation,
Facebook, which has more than 500 million users, is not available for comment on this matter.
About networking company that has been said that the suggestions opinion "tag"-an image automatically when it's just added new photos, new friends are proposed and when the user wants to deactivate features of their personal settings.
In the letter, Jepsen said that "change is simple enough" is enough to overcome concerns about privacy, such as asking users to "choose" facial recognition and improve the notification when the user photographs were analyzed and identified
