Mandatory Face detection in iphoto, MetaData, iCloud

When will I be able to I turn off Face recognition in iPhoto?
Apple needs to change Faces recognition in iPhoto from manditory to optional. I want to believe that Apple is an ally in protecting thier customer's metadata.
Given the National Security Agency's recently revealed surveillance programs, Big data's passive cooperation, iPhoto's default metadata preferences, and Apples push to iCloud through hardware and software product decisions, Apple needs to change this mandatory iPhoto function. Match company practice to customer expectation.

iPhoto has no 'default metadata preferences' apart from some of the Exif and IPTC metadata fields that it supports.
Faces supplies zero extra metadata at all. None. Zip, Nada.
If You add names to the Faces, then you are adding metadata. If you don't add names, then there is no extra data in the Faces function.
Without names, what does Big Brother get even if - and it's a big if - this data is being uploaded somewhere. All Big Brother can possibily know is that there is a person or persons, unidentified, in a photo that is taken somewhere. If you don't give it the location, then they don't know where that is. (Given the effectiveness of the facial rcognition scheme, it might also know there's a tyre, stone wall or flower in a photo.) But without the data you supply - i.e. the name or the location - they get no more information than if they can see the whole photo So, if you're concerned, simply don't use the Faces function.
Remember, if you don't put the data into the machine, no one can get it out.

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