The new application from the firm of Mark Zuckerberg, “ Moments ” that allows private photo sharing, will not be available at home or in Europe. This app uses facial recognition technology, technology that is contrary to EU legislation on personal data
Moments:. An app based on face recognition
Facebook’s Moments output since Monday in the US, it is currently unavailable in Europe. This app can identify Facebook friends on photos to share with them in stride. To recognize individuals is facial recognition technology used and unfortunately for the social networking giant that technology is not approved by the legislation of the European Union. Therefore, in the state, Moments can be offered to Facebook users on the old continent.
Moments she will ever happen in Europe?
Nothing ‘ is less certain. The problem is that the application does not provide a way to disable facial recognition and this is what European regulators blame. Richard Allan, vice president of the social network explained: “We were told that we had to establish a system to collect the agreement of users,” . “This is not the case now, so the application will not be available until it develops into a” . No date has been disclosed and it is not also know even if Facebook account edit application.
This is not the first time that companies like Facebook and Google are pinned by regulators European and Allan had warned a few weeks ago that European users would be deprived of certain features for reasons of legislation within the European Union.
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