Between the WWDC keynote and the E3 2011, the news was rather rich these days and perhaps this explains why I have not taken the time to talk about another big news to namely the integration of facial recognition in Facebook. A feature that came to us very quietly and is also enabled by default on all profiles. And precisely what we will see in this article is how it is possible to get rid of. So if you want to disable the facial recognition of Fac
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On paper, facial recognition Facebook is too cool top. How does it work? Well it's simple, folks … The service weasel in your photos, detects the faces of your friends, your colleagues or your family members and groups them together. Then feel free to tag them and add the name of the person asking about them. Knowing that all photos are not necessarily always very successful and do not necessarily put us all in value, we understand why this function raises many questions.
And that's not all. No, the worst thing is that Facebook has not taken the time to prevent its users from implementing this new feature. In reality, we do not even know since when the latter is activated and it is finally here is what is charged to the famous social network. And rightly so, because when users are not aware of the existence of a feature, they can not disable it. This means that the facial recognition of Facebook has received a lot of it, and frankly not good.
Bottom line, you must be numerous enough to find out how to get rid of this function and how to disable the recognition of facial Faceboo k. As usual with him, you have to search far away in the maze of service to achieve our ends. In any case, if you're a little lost, just follow these steps:
- Go to your account.
- Click "Privacy Settings".
- Click on "Custom Settings" at the bottom.
- Scroll down to "Tip my friends the pictures where I appear."
- Click "Change Settings".
- Click on the dropdown "Enable".
- Choose "Disable".
- Validate by clicking on "OK".
And now, nobody can now tag photos Skins Party on which you appear and you'll improve your chances of finding a new job. Also specify, for lovers of discretion, it is of course possible to follow this procedure to disable still full of nasty things. And casually, if you tend to share important information about you, it can be quite useful.
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