Facebook seems to constantly be in the middle of privacy issues recently and as Mashable reports, the social networking side could be steaming headlong into another, with its facial recognition system. The new system, which set many alarming bells ringing for many privacy-conscious people when it was first discussed back in December, offers people’s photos and suggests the names of friends they should be tagged as. The feature basically means that whenever you’re offered the chance to tag groups of your friends in an album, Facebook will use its facial recognition technology to group similar faces together and automatically suggest the friend you should tag them with. The facial recognition feature has been rolling out across Europe for the last few months with the default setting for the controversial system to be turned on. Despite all of Facebook’s privacy issues, the company does offer the option to turn off settings based on whether users feel their privacy is being compromised and facial recognition is no different. So for those of you who start to notice it coming up and want to turn it off, thankfully you can. You can follow the directions below to do so: Head on over to your Facebook account’s privacy settings Select ‘Customize’. Scroll down to ‘Things others share’. Look for the ‘Suggest photos of me to friends’ area and edit it accordingly. While we don’t deny that the option to disable facial recognition is one that is welcomed, we can’t figure out why Facebook keeps finding itself in these situations with regards to privacy. The European Union’s data-protection regulators are already looking into the privacy ramifications of Facebook’s latest move to catalogue us all. Stay tuned for more news and info on this topic by following us on Facebook, Twitter, and/or subscribing to our RSS feed. You may also like to read: Authors: