Facebook will soon tag you in photos AUTOMATICALLY with DeepFace feature

Uploading dozens of photos and tagging each one on Facebook can be tedious, and it appears the social network knows this. After creating a model, the team used a neural network that had been trained on a database of faces to try and match the face with one in a test database of more than 4 million images, containing more than 4,000 separate identities, each one labelled by humans. Security researcher Lee Munson said: 'The social network plans to use the system to identify its users in new photos as they are uploaded. The tagging option has started appearing in the settings of accounts globally - although in many cases it says the feature is 'unavailable' - and a number of users have reportedly been given the tool Security researcher Lee Munson said: 'The social network plans to use the system to identify its users in new photos as they are uploaded. If your visage appears in one of the 400 million pictures added to the network each day you'll receive an email from Facebook alerting you' Its creators said DeepFace finds a match with 97.25 per cent accuracy 'If your visage appears in one of the 400 million pictures added to the network each day you'll receive an email from Facebook alerting you.'