How Facebook facial recognition works

There has been a recent uproar about Facebook’s “Tag Suggestions” feature that takes people’s faces, attempts to recognize them, and suggests tags for them that their friends can add to any image. It’s been called creepy at best and an attack on privacy at worst. A successful Google+ launch could be a major challenge for Facebook already, so the timing of the latest controversy is bad for the social network.

This breakdown by Pinterest shows us how the technology works and gives us interesting information surrounding the controversy. It then dives into ways that privacy-conscious users can disable and combat the feature altogether. Click to enlarge.