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Published 27.06.2015 08:35

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Moments

Moments gallery

What parents need to know

Parents need to know that Moments is a Facebook product that grabs every picture on the device's camera roll, organizes them by date and location, if enabled, and makes it easy to share them. The app uses facial recognition, just as Facebook does, to suggest tags for people appearing in the pictures, but users can disable their faces being suggested as tags in their own Facebook settings. Even though the tags aren't suggested, faces are still scanned by facial recognition software, a practice that is not allowed in Europe, causing the app to not be released there because of the future implications, storage, and potential use of that kind of information. Also concerning for teen's privacy is the ability to widely share photos and what could be done with those photos once shared.