Facial recognition will be turned off for Facebook users from Europe

[conductor]

http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/en.html

[mibbitier]

Misleading title. It'll be off by default, but users will be able to turn it on if they want.

[ConnorRoberts → mibbitier]

thanks for the clarification, this was pissing me off :)

[comice]

Privacy is dead. Except where it is still enshrined in law.

[sabalaba]

I know a lot of people in the industry are wondering if this type of legislation will come stateside. Don't know if anybody else noticed this, but with Google+ it looks like they've already implemented "opt-in" style facerec.

But I think people will be surprised how high the rates are when they make the 'opt-in' button the big blue one.

[darkhorn]

I'm EU citizen but I live out of EU. Will it be turned off for me? What I have to do? To change my country to a EU state?

[Atropos → darkhorn]

Theoretically the EU privacy laws do not apply to you, the scope of the law concerns EU territory only. But of course I don't know how Facebook will handle its compliance, so maybe changing your country to an EU state might work.

[X-Istence → darkhorn]

I am an EU citizen that signed up for FB while in the US, but ever since I used it in The Netherlands (where I am from) it has shown my account in the UK... meh, whatever.

[kyriakos]

It's good European Union does something useful for a change

[rmc → kyriakos]

EU has done lots of consumer and 'little guy' laws, like employee rights law, anti-discrimination law etc.

[rhizome → kyriakos]

Pfft. They have tons better privacy protection than the US. Privacywise, the US is pretty terrible due to a business-favoring regulatory regime.

[antihero]

This website is an utterly chaotic mess of information.