A new feature coming to Facebook Photos promises to speed-up to the mundane task of tagging, as well as generate some controversy where privacy is concerned. In a nutshell, the new feature called Tag Suggestions will make use of facial recognition technology to automatically fill in the "Who is this?" box. All users have to do is to click on the "Save Tags" button in order to accept the suggestions, greatly speeding up the task of uploading and tagging new photos.

Up to 100 million tags are added to photos each day, noted Facebook engineer Justin Mitchell in a blog entry, and the company wants to make the task easier. As an alternative to uploading and separately tagging the 64 pictures from your cousin's wedding for example, Facebook will instead "group together pictures of the bride and suggest her name." Users uncomfortable with this new feature can look for "Suggest photos of me to friends" under your privacy settings and disable it. For now, face recognition is set to debut in the United States over the next few weeks.

For more on this story:
- check out this article at CNN.com
- check out this article at The Register
- check out this article at Facebook Blog

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