Facebook announced Tuesday that it will be implementing facial recognition technology for all users in the next few weeks. Facial recognition technology is basically Facebook’s way of creating a huge, photo-searchable database of its users. You can opt-out of the service, but it ll just keep people from tagging you automatically. The technology will ultimately culminate in the ability to search for people using just a picture, which will be the end of privacy as we know it.
Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/229742/Why_Facebooks_Facial_Recognition_is_Creepy.html