Facebook is rolling out a new privacy button to allow users to opt-out of the Tag Suggestions feature. Users can manually turn off the feature if they don t want their biometrics to be leveraged in suggested photo tags. Facebook says the feature also helps protect users against someone trying to impersonate them. The new opt in feature comes on the heels of an ongoing U.S. lawsuit against Facebook, which alleges that the social media giant illegally collected the biometric data for millions of users without their consent, utilizing facial recognition technology.
Source: https://threatpost.com/facebook-drops-default-facial-recognition-tag-suggestions/147962/