Facebook's Privacy Issues : Photo-Tagging Feature

In this currently century, mostly everyone in over the world are now using facebook. For those who did not know what Facebook is or asking what its used for, allow me to briefly explain what it is. Actually, Facebook is a popular of mostly a world's largest social network site which was founded by an exclusive network for Harvard students named Mark Zuckerberg, with the help of his friends and students, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes in February 2004.

What's good of using the facebook is that it allows more than a 900 millions user, including you for creating your own profile page, add some new friends, exchange a text messages and also automatic notifications from the other people whenever updating in profile pages. Apart from that, we can communicate with other people from  over the world by using such features like video cams feature, liking some interest and joining groups, uploading and sharing photos and videos and many more ( etc.).  Anyway, Facebook is Free to register for all of us over the world. Even nowadays, half of the user are now updating their own status using the facebook apps on the mobile devices. For such an internet user like me, facebook is kinda what i like to say that it's a way path to connect for mostly family and friends from all around the world.

But there was a seriously issue going on in nowadays which some users have expressed concern that this type of expansion technology on the social network could encroach on their privacy rights. It's about the the privacy issue that facebook added a feature which everytime uploading some photos, it jumps automatically to this feature called Facial Recognition Features, where it detects who was in those photos. Reading from another articles that Germany investigation has found out that facebook is breaking the rule by collecting the uploaded photos without the permission on those user's photos. By doing so, we can opt-out whenever it automatically opted in the feature.

Still, this issue seems to bug me a quite bit because this features can detect someone by uploading some other person pictures, which lead to match the person on that picture with the previous one that have been set as public, that all the information stated by that person can now be view by someone else. For such technology, everyone can become spy or dectective, including the criminals by all the info which being exposed. I fear that this technology could be used on unsuspecting civilians innocent of any crime, or could be used to instantly identify someone walking down the street. From my opinion, don't get to attach with this feature and also don't expose too much information.

" Am I aware of this?"

For somehow, i did not aware of this kind of feature till i investigate the site: http://www.forbes.com/sites/chunkamui/2011/08/08/facebooks-privacy-issues-are-even-deeper-than-we-knew/ which contains article that been given by the lecturer.

" Will I stay on Facebook after knowing this? "

My answer would be yes, because as a facebook user, this is the best way for me to keep interaction with my family and friends for those who live far distance from me, and also keeps me updated about their status like activities and plans, even though i didn't like that new feature very much.

Cheers.

-Mohamad Fauzi Bin Md Khalid  -1121116914