U.S. officials will examine changes to Facebook Inc‘s privacy policy to determine whether they violate a 2011 agreement with federal regulators, a Federal Trade Commission spokesman confirmed after certain changes drew fire from privacy advocates.
Much of the criticism has focused on a proposed “Tag Suggest” feature that would use facial recognition technology to match faces in photos with public profile features, part of a broad set of privacy changes the social networking giant announced on August 29.
Facebook said in a statement on Wednesday that it was in full compliance with the FTC and that its new policy did not grant the company expanded privileges in how it used personal data.
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