A number of European privacy regulators are investigating Facebook’s facial recognition feature amid mounting concern about the technology, which attempts to identify people in photos uploaded to the website.There is a tension in these two paragraphs. "concern about the technology" or "introducing the feature without permission from users"?
The social networking site has come under fire from the German, UK and Irish authorities for introducing the feature without permission from users.
The issues are often confused. Technology is neither good nor bad. What people do with technology and how they treat each other can be.
So, where are these mounting concerns best directed: facial recognition technology; the Facebook as a technology; or individual decisions by people in positions of power and trust?
This affair has more to do with transparency and consent than any particular technology.
Identity management is about people.
