"They can sit and review what happened in that incident and use it as a learning tool, " said Muth.

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In September, following a review by Ireland's data protection commissioner, Facebook suspended its facial-recognition tool that suggested when users in Europe could be tagged in photographs.

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What we need is an attention management or filtering tool like the Social Lens project at IBM, discussed in a recent MIT Technology Review article.

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