Reject tag. That’s the best solution to most Facebook picture problems involving you looking dodgy, drunk or disorderly in someone else’s weekend photo album, right? Not anymore. In more FB news today, the social network has decided it’s rad and totally okay to have face-recognition software automatically detect users in images, even career-damaging ones.

Yes, you’d better check your settings, because Facebook is changing users’ privacy options to automatically turn on the facial recognition feature, which is able to detect and identify faces in photos. Tag suggestions are then made to all your friends and you’ll no longer have the option to reject a request to be named in a photo. You’re going to have to “untag” yourself later.

While this was introduced last year in North America, Facebook is now rolling the change out to all users around the globe.

To disable the facial recognition feature, you’ll need to do the following:

1. Go to your account privacy settings and click “Customize settings”.
2. Scroll down to a list of options called “Things others share”.
3. Click on “Suggest photos of me to friends”.
4. You will be given the option to disable the facial recognition feature.

It might be a good idea to do just that.

[Source: The New York Times]