Thursday, June 9, 2011

Ministry of Justice requires explanations to Facebook

More controversy in an account of Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook has started automatically activate the face recognition in the accounts of users. When you do upload a photo, social networking algorithms do a scan of the image to try to determine if someone you know is there. Of course, once again, the privacy of Internet users is called into question.

Worst of all is that Facebook has enabled face recognition in different user accounts without permission. Pum, is activated. The consumer protection agency of the Ministry of Justice did not like that story and asked that Facebook is explained on the automatic activation feature.

The Department of Consumer Protection and Defense (DPDC), the Ministry of Justice has notified Facebook to provide information on a new system that automatically recognizes people. The tool allows users to identify their friends in photos posted on personal album, potentially increasing the exposure of the image of network users.

That's what says the statement on the website of the Ministry of Justice. There it is explained that the court took note of the news media, and noted evidence of lack of consent in time to enable face recognition. The MOJ also not ruled out an invasion of privacy, as you can read in the statement.

Facebook has ten days to respond to the notification. Will have to explain the changes to activate the face recognition were advised to Brazilian users.

It is good to note that Facebook has issued a statement in which he admits to the wrong turn on the facial recognition feature without prior consent from users. If that's worth something to the Ministry of Justice, there is another matter.