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Facebook Moments arrive in Italy without the most important function

After just under a year after the official launch of the application, Facebook Moments also lands in Europe and Canada, and then in Italy. But with some compromises: to meet the strictest privacy laws of the Old Continent and the North American state now had to remove one of the most important and critical functions of the application: facial recognition.

What Moments: this is separate from Facebook application that allows you to quickly and easily collect all the pictures in which you are present, alone or with friends. It allows us to store on your smartphone the most important moments of our lives so that they are always within our reach, and share them with those who have experienced them. The special feature of the app is that it lets you group photos and videos by following a precise logic according to people who are taken in the images and the places where they were taken.

It goes without saying that without features such as facial recognition, Moments does not do much more than other backup applications of images. In Europe, you can use Moments for group photos that seem to represent the same person, "to help you to sort through the growing number of photos and, if you wish, share them," writes the company. Its operation is "similar to the existing" other photo app.

He continues: "In Europe Moments does not use facial recognition but a form of recognition of objects for group photos that seem to represent the same person, based on characteristics such as distance between the eyes and ears." This undoubtedly helps to simply organize the photos: we can choose to add or remove them from the groupings, insert a label recognition and other functions.

But will the user to tell Moments those depicted in each picture: the application includes several photos that seem to represent the same face and then asks the user to optionally give the grouping a "private label" custom label as the name of the person depicted. Thanks to label the application can automatically organize your photos so that they are always easily identifiable by the user.

The high quality technology of facial recognition Facebook Moments does not succeed in European soil, and could soon disappear even in the American version of the application if the legal battles going on did not go as expected by the lawyers of the company. For years now it is in a lawsuit related to the automatic detection of the faces on Facebook to defend the privacy of users of social networks, and its outcome will be crucial to guarantee the survival of the US Moments app also feature.

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