EFF: How to Disable Facebook's Facial Recognition Feature & Control Photo Tagging

EFF shows you three ways to delete your facial fingerprint data from Facebook and shows you a privacy setting that lets you ensure that you are the only person who can see tags identifying you in photographs.

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As always Facebook would "love" for everyone to share everything with the world (and with them), therefore this new feature is enabled by default (aka opt-out).

Privacy advocates and security professionals [i.e. those paid to be paranoid] and Europe greatly prefer features which are disabled by default (aka opt-in).