PHOTO-SHARING APPS UNDER FIRE FOR TAGGING PEOPLE IN PICTURES

While the practice of photobombing has become a social and cultural phenomenon lately, the practice itself isn’t anything new. Since the advent of the camera, people have either intentionally tried to appear in someone else’s photos or have accidentally stumbled into the frame. Now, with biometric facial recognition algorithms, companies like Google, Apple and Facebook are able to identify these photobombing faces across the web—yet, this smart way to organize and share pictures is dredging up privacy concerns.

When you consider the 3.5 trillion analog photos and billions of more recent digital pictures in existence, our images—in some form or another—may be entrapped in a stranger’s photo album without consent. If a person walks through the background of a tourist’s snapshot, facial-recognition software may recognize the face and tag the person’s name to that picture. That photo can then be shared across the internet—with the person’s name attached, and without their permission to share it.

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