Facebook Privacy Options

Facebook has given users in the EU and Canada the right to turn on facial recognition technology, which can be used to detect when others might attempt to use your image as their profile photo without your consent, for example.

Facial recognition also is used to suggest friends to tag in group photos or videos. The tool is entirely optional for all users.

Facebook will ask users to agree to its new service and data policy. It will maintain its pledge not to sell data, which Zuckerberg insisted repeatedly during the congressional hearings that Facebook does not do.

Users in the EU will start to see those updates ahead of the GDPR implementation on May 25, and users elsewhere will see the changes later in the year.

The chief technology officer at Facebook is scheduled to testify in the British House of Commons next week, before a committee investigating the fake news phenomenon. It was that committee's hearings that led to a whistleblower disclosing Facebook's unauthorized sharing of millions of privacy records with Cambridge Analytica.

Facebook also has put in place more protections for teens, including restrictions on the types of ads that target them, and limits on the use of facial recognition for those under age 18. Also, the number of users who can see a teen's hometown or birthday is limited.

Under the EU's GDPR, users between the ages of 13 and 15 in certain EU countries need parental permission to use certain features, including advertising based on data from partners, and religious or political views.

source of article :https://www.technewsworld.com/story/Facebook-Rolls-Out-European-Style-Privacy-Protections-85291.html

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