Opt out of Facebook’s facial-recognition – here’s how

Another thing for my semi-privacy policy to-do list.

I’m not naive enough to think privacy is at all possible these days, and the government definitely can identify almost all of us using facial recognition. I’d just as soon though, that not every Tom, Dick, and Larry is able to identify me and my family.

If you haven’t seen it yet, Facebook’s new facial-recognition software is a crafty feature. Pass a cursor over a photo that you just uploaded to Facebook and, voila, the person’s name pops up like magic.

[From Facebook facial-recognition opt out: Here’s how to opt out of Facebook’s facial-recognition feature – latimes.com]