[beatpanda]

I'm also a litte perplexed about why anybody needs tagging in photos. If you take photos of your family, you already know who they are. Same thing with pictures of your friends. It seems like the only reason anybody uses tagging on Facebook is to alert their friends that they're in a photo.

To me, that use case for facial recognition always felt like a front. It's an edge case, used as a justification for technology where the base case is surveillance agencies using it to identify whoever they might be after in public.