Facebook makes it easier to hide your mug from its facial recognition tech

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by Sindy Cator on December 19, 2017 at 9:26 pm

Facebook has used facial recognition technology since 2010 to help you tag yourself and friends in photos, but not everyone’s cool with the company’s eerily accurate algorithm (which is only getting better). According to an announcement today, Facebook will soon make it much simpler to stop it from spotting your face altogether. Hard Questions: Face Recognition Posted by Facebook on Wednesday, December 13, 2017 Previously, you could disable auto-tagging suggestions by going into the ‘Timeline and Tagging’ section of Settings, but it’s phrased rather unclearly: “Who sees tag suggestions when photos that look like you are uploaded?” Most people probably…