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The technology has been identified by regulators as one of the most important threat of Facebook privacy. Man plans changes, prior to the reintroduction of the system.Billy Hawkes, Irish head of the data protection Commission, which mounted the investigation because Facebook Europe based on Ireland, the social network of cooperation praised."I am particularly promoted in relation to the approach that was decided in the facial recognition suggested label, beyond our first recommendations, in the light of developments since then, in order to achieve best practice with the agreed upon reality,", said.Facebook introduction of facial recognition software which uses it, the promotion of the members to "tag" their friends in photos, to be sure, that launched in more general terms, these have been controversial. It was enabled by default last year, which means that the members had to get off if I wanted to be part of the system.Mr. Hawkes said he was pleased that giant Facebook had made it clear with their responsibility in accordance with the Irish and EU data protection laws comply with the obligation.
His statement came after a series of follow-up meetings, regulators to evaluate how well the former personal recommendations of Facebook has been observed.Commissioner Adjunto Gary Davis, who headed the terms of the initial audit and review, warned that the Office of enforcement powers where necessary, but would be of use. Facebook may be punished up to £80,000, if Irish within four weeks does not match the last orders of regulatory authorities."There was a series of elements that progress was not completely to the front, as we had hoped and we have a period of four weeks for these questions come to a successful conclusion", said."It is also clear that the company's continuous commitment goes beyond to bring will be necessary, new forms are used to transmit advertising for users and maintain the user of the site".Facebook said that he trusts that you can follow to resolve the remaining issues, the basis of the progress that has been made on other issues in recent months.

He also continue promised to ensure that the Irish supervisory authorities remains compatible with European data protection laws and creating new products and functions."As our voltage regulator in Europe, the Office of the Ireland data protection supervisor works constantly with us, to make sure that we have in the high standards of the improvement of control to maintain, have integrated into our existing tools," said a spokesman."This audit is part of a process of monitoring, and we invite you to the data protection authority said that the recent announcement is confirmation that we are compliant with European data protection law, but it has gone beyond some of its first recommendations and are fully engaged in the implementation of best practices data protection".

Already pledged to improve their privacy practices, new Facebook criticized, in the news members called them reported friends used is not your real name in the social network. Unlike Twitter, Facebook has a long rule that accounts must be based on the true identity.