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Sarah Shearman
Jun 9, 2011

Facebook quietly rolls out facial recognition technology

GLOBAL - Facebook has quietly expanded facial recognition technology that automatically identifies users' pictures to their friends to the UK and "most countries".

Facebook's new technology identifies a user's face in a new photo for tagging.

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