It's no secret that Facebook is generally eager to access data about its users. Information about secret data of people using Facebook has often been exposed to falling into the wrong hands, as confirmed, among others, by the scandal regarding Cambridge Analytica. After the end of this case, which was widely commented all over the world, Facebook pays more attention to the safety of users and the company tries to keep customer data secret at all costs, but as the latest information shows, in the past it wasn't so obvious.
We can read on the Internet that over three years ago Facebook tested the function in its application that allows users to recognize faces in real time. Using the camera, the application recognized a specific user of the portal and showed his or her profile and name. This function worked quite quickly because the user's face recognition usually took up to a few seconds. Officially, however, this feature did not reach all users, but only to a small group of testers. Facebook claims that the tested option was only available to employees of the company who wanted to take part in its tests, and its official introduction for all customers at least in the past has not been seriously considered. It is worth recalling that the face recognition function is present on the portal at the moment, because the website itself suggests us which person is in specific photographs when no user is marked in the picture.