Facebook has begun rolling out facial recognition in UK Facebook accounts and at the same time has made the default privacy settings in your account: “Suggest photos of me to friends”.

Facial recognition in Facebook was designed to make it easier for users to tag friends when they upload photos to their own account. Unless you change your account settings to disable face recognition, Facebook now automatically scans the faces in all uploaded images and tries to identify you within them. Friends are then encouraged to tag you in their photos.

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