Identity theft fears grow over Facebook facial recognition
Biometric Technology Today · 2011
German officials have demanded that Facebook stop its facial recognition of German users. Fanning the flames of the debate US researchers have found that Facebook facial recognition may not be harmless when combined with information from a person's profile leading to identity theft. And following the London riots there were concerns of vigilantism as a Google group independent of law enforcement agencies set out to match images of rioters with Facebook and other social media images.