Facebook has already been on the wrong end of a privacy investigation in Germany, but it looks like the company’s legal woes aren’t quite over yet. The New York Times reports that German data protection officials have reopened their investigation into Facebook’s facial recognition technology after it became apparent that Facebook wasn’t going to change its policy. According to data protection commissioner Johannes Caspar, Facebook is building a database of user photos for its facial recognition feature, something that is illegal under European privacy law. Read the full story at Slashgear.
