Facebook has recently introduced a new feature is called Tag Suggestion. You may have observed this new feature in Facebook’s photo tagging if you have uploaded photos to Facebook recently. The new face recognition feature in Facebook can intelligently suggests the name of the friends for automatic picture tagging. Therefore, you could be tagged by Facebook automatically when your friend uploads photos that contain your face in it.

The Facebook’s rollout of this new feature has already raised the eyebrows of many people out there. Many Facebook users reported that the site has enabled the facial recognition option in the last few days without giving any notice.This clearly shows that Facebook is eroding the online privacy of its users by stealth.

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How to Disable Facebook Face Recognition Feature:

It might be a helpful feature to reduce the chore of photo tagging but here are the steps for you to disable Facebook’s facial recognition for your profile if you are not comfortable with this feature:

1. Login to your Facebook profile.
2. Click at “Account” link from the top right corner and select “Account Settings” upon login.
3. Click the “manage” link under the “Privacy” section.
4. Click “Customize Settings” link from the Privacy Settings page.
5. Click “Edit Settings” button from the “Suggest photos of me to friends” under the “Things others share” section.
   
6. Select “Disabled” from the dropdown menu from the popped up window.
7. Click the “Okay” button. That’s it, you are done.

You just have turned off Facebook Facial Recognition feature and from now on your friends have to manually tag on Facebook photos rather than Facebook automatically suggests to your friends. I don’t know about your views on this new feature that has automatically turned on for users but personally, I would not like to give authority to Facebook about telling everyone to tag me in their pictures without my notice.