Facebooks new service will look through the images on your phone – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): Both Google and Facebook launches in these times even more features that make use of so-called Face.

In recent weeks, Facebook allowed selected user countries test the function Photomagic built in messaging service Messenger, writes among other Tek.no.

Photo Magic offers to browse through the latest images you’ve taken with your phone, recognize which friends you’ve taken a picture and let yourself hyphenate the pictures with them.

– We see that it’s very popular to send images over Messenger. Around 9.5 billion pictures were sent in Messenger only last month. It is a faster growth than the very rapid growth Messenger even experience, says product director Peter Martinazzi to TechCrunch.

Illegal?

But the service may be illegal in Norway, as well as a number other European countries:

Since 2012, namely Facebooks face detection been closed for European access, since many countries have declared technology illegal.

– It is a very powerful tool and it is not clear yet how it really works, stated Inspectorate Director Bjørn Erik Thon then.

Currently, the Inspectorate unsure of the legality of the new service.

– We must first see what choices Facebook will do in Europe and especially how the Irish data protection authority will react to a possible implementation of this type of service, says technical director Atle Årnes to Aftenposten.

This page Norwegians privacy rights on Facebook followed up by Irish data supervision, because Facebook has its European headquarters there.

New services

Facebook launches increasingly small news of features that will make social media usage even more comfortable.

Recently they launched a separate notice for accounts that were in danger of having been tampered with by hackers with government support.

Also app Moments is new this year, and will make it easier to share photos from a shared experience with a limited group Facebook friends.

The social giant beats the way ever new records: In August, the first time one billion people used Facebook on the same day.

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