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Given the news that has already come out about Facebook, you’re probably thinking there is no way that anything else leaks out today. They’re probably on lockdown (real lockdown, not the crazed coding “lockdown”), right? Wrong.

You know those really unflattering photos on Facebook that you untagged at lightning speed? Now might be a good time to delete them...or at least check up on one new privacy setting. Yesterday, security firm Sophos issued a warning saying that Facebook rolled out a feature that recognizes your face in photos, prompting your friends to tag you.

Late last year, Facebook started rolling a facial recognition feature across the US. Now, the company has pushed the “Suggest photos of me to friends” feature to countries outside of the US, but has switched it on by default without telling its users first.

Facebook users can now have a more secure log-in to their accounts as Facebook tightened the log-in verification process, Via Facebook Blog.

By activating the new feature in the security section of the account settings page, the user will have a new security feature integrated into their login procedure called Log-in Approvals. The two-step process involves entering a username and password along with a numeric verification code sent to the user’s mobile phone.