Facebook Faces Norway Probe Over Facial-Recognition Tags
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Facebook Inc. is being probed by Norway’s data-protection regulator over concerns a facial-recognition program that automatically suggests people’s names to tag in pictures breaches privacy rights.
“It’s a very powerful tool Facebook has and it’s not yet clear how it all really works,” Bjorn Erik Thon, Norway’s data-protection commissioner, said in a phone interview today. “They have pictures of hundreds of millions of people. What material Facebook has in its databases is something we need to discuss with them.”