Facebook’s privacy problems in Germany are back in the “active” column after a government regulatory body announced Wednesday that it was re-opening an investigation into the social-media giant’s facial-recognition technology.
The technology in question—Photo Tag Suggest—analyzes photos uploaded by users to Facebook and automatically matches faces to member accounts on the service. The California-based company introduced facial recognition in December 2010 as a benefit to its users, announcing in a blog post:
