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Requests from privacy regulators across the EU led Facebook to indefinitely axe its facial recognition feature for all European users. Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) on Friday published its assessment  which suggested that Facebook had “fully implemented” most of the DPC’s recommendations, DPC had been forced into the issue following complaints by a group of Austrian law [...]

Facebook came under regulatory radar again  in Germany on Thursday after authorities reopened a probe into the website’s facial recognition software which they say violates the privacy of its users.   The head of the data protection office in the northern city of Hamburg, Johannes Caspar, said in a note posted to his website  that  he would resume an investigation launched against Facebook [...]