Facebook launches facial recognition app in Europe (without facial recognition)

The social network wants you to share more pictures, and its new app Moments is how it's going to encourage that - if it isn't scuppered by data protection law

Almost a year after it came out in the US, Facebook is releasing its facial recognition-powered photo app Moments in Europe.

Except the new version won't actually include any facial recognition technology, thanks to the company's long-running fight with the Irish data protection commissioner over whether the technology is actually legal in the EU.