The world’s largest search engine is busy rolling out technology that can track your face. Facebook has been doing this for a while, so this sounds like Google playing catch-up, but there is a neat difference: unlike on Facebook, Google+ users get to opt-in to the facial recognition feature, instead of being automatically dragged into it.

Despite the fact that the facial recognition service seems to be getting rolled out Google-wide, it’s not like every photo of you on the internet is going to get flagged – at least, not yet. For the time being, it seems to be limited to suggesting to people in your circles that you be tagged in photos that appear to contain your face.

Personally I have yet to upload a single photograph to Google+, so this feature makes very little difference to my life, but it is sort of nice that they’re taking privacy issues a little more seriously than Facebook did when they rolled the feature out in December last year – which required users who didn’t want their untagged photos showing up on everybody else’s profile to actively opt-out of the service.

The feature is called “Find My Face,” though, which is maybe a little uninspired.

As a aside: does anybody here actively use Google+ in any capacity?

[Source: Naked Security]