Palo Alto, Calif. - Facebook on Thursday announced that it has begun using facial recognition software as a means of increasing the number of photos that are "tagged" with the names of the users they depict. The software will now examine past uploaded photos, and "suggest" names of similar-looking people that it recognizes in newly uploaded photos. "If for any reason you don't want your name to be suggested, you will be able to disable suggested tags in your Privacy Settings," the company wrote in a blog post.
"Just click 'Customize Settings' and 'Suggest photos of me to friends.' Your name will no longer be suggested in photo tags, though friends can still tag you manually."
Facebook notes that users are currently adding more than 100 million photo tags daily.
In October, the company added "group tagging," where a user could automatically tag the same person in a group of uploaded photos.
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