How to Disable Facebook’s Facial Recognition Tagging

That face, that face, that beautiful face and now Facebook knows that face. Facebook has rolled out facial recognition tagging in the United States. This may seem harmless to some until you are tagged somewhere you may not supposed to be, with alcohol in your hands at a company function or with pictures of your children.

The facial recognition tagging can only happen among Facebook friends and is not automatic. Instead it automates tagging so Facebook friends don’t have to manually tag instead they can answer a yes or no question.

But you can put a stop to this.

1. From your Home page, click Account. Choose Privacy Settings then click the link Customize Settings.

2. Choose Suggest Photos of Me to Friends, and select Edit Settings. Select Disable from the drop down menu.

If you don’t mind being tagged in every photo don’t do a thing. The settings currently default to allow this feature.