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Facebook’s face recognition tech will alert you when someone impersonates you

December 20, 2017

Facebook on Tuesday unveiled a brand new feature that may improve your entire Facebook experience. Or make it even creepier. It all depends on how you feel about facial recognition technology.

You’ll say facial recognition on Facebook isn’t new, and you’d be right. But Facebook is rolling out a new trick based on this particular technology, and new settings to manage it.

Going forward, Facebook will notify you whenever people post photos of you without tagging or telling you. What’s really great about the new feature is that it’ll let you know whether anyone is trying to create fake Facebook accounts using your pictures as profile images.

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