Facebook facial 6 9 2011

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Facebook facial-recognition feature attracts scrutiny from EU

EU group looks into violations of privacy rules in photo tagging

Facebook agrees to stop collecting photographs of European people

Facebook had collected millions of photographs.

A reveller fancy dressed as a Facebook profile joins the Banda de Ipanama carnival street band as they parade along Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro on March 5, 2011.

Antonio Scorza

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