Innovation Moments, used to sharing photos, through the facial recognition. But the functionality is not accepted on European soil
The application is called Moments, was designed by Facebook and launched in the United States for almost a year. Another application to compile photographs, dir would, but Mark Zuckerberg giant made the difference with a tool that allows facial recognition of people who appear in the images.
In practice, the application It intended to manage photos, but aims to facilitate sharing between friends brings together the photos that were taken in the same event and group them so that all who participated in the occasion may have access to those who were there pictures . Facial recognition allows the application to recognize the people in the images and suggest immediate sharing with stakeholders the user to load the photos in interaction with Facebook.
This application comes to Europe next June but European users will not be able to rely on the functionality of facial recognition which is, after all, the originality of Moments. All due to the dispute that Facebook has with the European regulator in terms of privacy and data protection:. In Europe, there is no consensus on the “legality” of this technology
In 2011, for example, recalls British the Guardian , Germany decided that the Facebook feature to “tag people” in the photographs – that suggested users to identify the images friends that there appeared and wearing just a facial recognition technology – violating privacy laws and could be misused. In 2012, the Irish regulator for data protection considered that, effectively, this facial recognition was not suitable for European laws.
Thus, in Europe, who want to use the application to group the images of a party or event where he met with friends and share it with them will have to identify each person manually: a. Moments will have no possibility of recognizing the faces of the participants, suggesting immediately to send images to interested
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