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How To Disable Facebook’s Automatic Facial Recognition Service

How To Disable Facebook’s Automatic Facial Recognition Service

Posted 06/09/2011 at 3:20pm | by Cory Bohon

Facebook recently introduced a new facial recognition service that allows for easier photo tagging. However, the problem is that many users may not appreciate this feature, and consider it a privacy concern. Fortunately, Facebook did enable the ability to turn off this feature, and in this article, we’ll show you how.

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How to Disable Facebook’s Automatic Facial Recognition Service

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From any Facebook page, click on your Account in the top-right corner of the screen. From the drop-down menu, select “Privacy Settings.”
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From the Privacy Settings screen, click on the “Customize Settings” link.
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On this page, click the Edit Settings button labeled “Suggest photos of me to friends” from under the “Things others share” subheading.
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In the pop up window, select Disabled from the drop-down menu for the “Suggest photos of me to friends”. When you’re finished, click Okay. This will turn off Facebook's automatic facial recognition and ensure that your friends have to manually tag you in photos.

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June 17, 2011 at 10:36am

is this still relevant? my facebook privacy page looks different than what's here

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