Facebook Is Giving Your Face Some Privacy

Facebook has been collecting facial recognition data up until this point.

, news-feed notifications should be popping up this week to educate you on how exactly the new opt-in feature works — and if you do nothing, it should switch off anyway.

For new users, the facial-recognition feature should be off when you sign up, only turning on if you go into Settings and opt in. Up until this point, Facebook collected your facial data and used it to “elevate” your social media experience. In practice, it may have made the process of tagging all your friends in an album easier, but it mostly creeped users out —

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