{"id":318645,"date":"2019-09-04T10:49:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T08:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=318645"},"modified":"2019-09-04T10:49:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T08:49:59","slug":"facebook-will-stop-scanning-your-face-by-default","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/318645-facebook-will-stop-scanning-your-face-by-default.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook will stop scanning your face by default"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Facebook privacy setting will make facial recognition in photos opt-in by default.<\/p>\n<p>Face Recognition replaces Tag Suggestions, and is <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.fb.com\/news\/2019\/09\/update-face-recognition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>rolling out<\/strong><\/a> to all Facebook users from today.<\/p>\n<p>With Face Recognition turned on, Facebook notifies you if a picture of you is uploaded online &#8211; even if you are not tagged.<\/p>\n<p>You then receive three options:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tag yourself<\/li>\n<li>Stay untagged<\/li>\n<li>Report the photo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Face Recognition was first introduced in December 2017, but it was only available to a limited number of users.<\/p>\n<p>Those who have not had Face Recognition available as a setting will receive a notification in their News Feed that will allow them to turn the feature on.<\/p>\n<p>If they choose not to, however, Face Recognition will remain disabled by default.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/318559-samsung-is-working-on-a-phone-that-folds-into-a-square.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Samsung working on smartphone that folds into a square<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Face Recognition replaces Tag Suggestions, and is rolling out to all Facebook users from today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":206284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[60781,161,763],"class_list":["post-318645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-face-recognition","tag-facebook","tag-facial-recognition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318657,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318645\/revisions\/318657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}