Facebook's facial recognition: Privacy invasion?

According to the article on June 9, 2011, in The Week magazine, Facebook’s “Tag Suggestions” which uses facial recognition software to automatically identify and tag the people in photos uploaded to Facebook are now arousing controversy. A Facebook spokesman says that they did this in response to user complaints about the chores of uploading and tagging friends in photos, and very few people have complained about this change. On the other hand, EU regulators label it as an invasion of privacy because it was automatically activated without each user’s permission.

I love technology and am probably one of the most chore-hating people in the world. I would normally be pleased with news about another the Facebook’s update news as I am as usual. However, there are some critical problems to accept this news at face value just as good news. There are two reasons why this is the case I insist like this.

First of all, Facebook’s Tag Suggestions uses someone’s biological information. It is a matter before the company’s intention or how convenient the new program is. Even if the company has positive intentions and the feature will be more convenient for users, we should still consider the harm that the automatic tagging could cause. With this biological information, the company could make a detailed database of all of their user's numbers. as many as their user numbers. This database can could have any information about a user's preferences and activities. including who likes what, and who did what why. It This information can could be used commercially or in other ways. Even if the company doesn’t exploit the users through this information it, it still has danger the potential to be hacked. Nobody can be sure that the information would remain safe could be kept in safe. What would hackers do with the data? It is so obvious that they going to would abuse the information. How many people are struggling to protect their privacy? How much money is used to save our biological information? Recently, one research survey says, said the average amount of money which is spent on our personal security is more than five percent of our total annual income. If you think about the amount of money, you would can understand why Facebook’s update is wrong.

Moreover, it is illegal to install any program without the user’s permission. Facebook’s Tag Suggestions is not just an update. Rather, it is a separate program which uses face-recognition technology. The company should have asked users about installing or applying their new program before moving ahead with their agenda. To install or not to install a program is a user’s own personal right. In my opinion, without that right, there is no difference between the such programs and a spyware.

For the two reasons I mentioned above that Since Facebook’s Tag Suggestions uses biological information and it is a separated program, I argue that the company should stop applying their program, or at least be permitted about using it  seek permission from their users to use it. Facebook should “face” what is the right thing to do is.