Facebook facial recognition software violates privacy laws, says Germany

Facebook is threatened with legal action in Germany over its facial recognition software, which critics say violates privacy and data protection laws.

Now Hamburg's data protection official has written to Facebook to demand it stops running the facial recognition programme on German users and deletes any related data. Johannes Caspar said the German authorities would take action if Facebook did not comply and could face fines of up to €300,000 (£262,000).

Source: Guardian.co.uk