let the games begin!
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Facebook is officially rolling out a new feature that recognizes peoples faces and offers to tag them automatically in photos uploaded to the social network.
Well, lets say your friend Becky adds a few photos to her Druunnkkk!!1! album and youre seen making an ass of yourself in several of them. All Becky has to do is click yes which is great for her since she doesnt have to tag each individual picture of you and every shot youre in will be marked accordingly.
Also, and Im not trying to get all Big Brother here, but Facebook is host to over 90 billion images with 200 million being uploaded every day! Thats one hell of a database. How soon until someone can just snap a picture on the street and suddenly know everything about you?
Also also, Facebook has kept with their theme of assuming everybodys going to want their private info spackeled across the web, and its up to YOU to opt-out.
Go to Account > Account Settings > Privacy > Customize Settings > Things Others Share and disable Suggest photos of me to friends.
Even if you opt out of the auto-tagging, Facebook is still going to ID you, so many people have started tagging themselves as random/inanimate objects as a way to foil the hounds.