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Published: June 10, 2011 Facebook and facial recognition – you’ve been tagged Author David White Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of New South Wales Disclosure Statement David White is employed on an ARC Linkage Grant in collaboration with Australia Passports. Our goal is to ensure the content is not compromised in any way. We therefore ask all authors to disclose any potential conflicts of interest before publication. Re-publish We licence our articles under Creative Commons — attribution, no derivatives. Anyone can re-publish our content provided they follow some simple guidelines. Your Facebook snaps now come with a hidden catch. rishibando Around 2 million photographs are uploaded to Facebook each day. As of this week, every new image will be processed by automatic face recognition software, designed to identify the people in the photographs.