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The whole "photo tagging" thing is a lot more serious than that. Facebook allows people to tag photos of their friends and acquaintances, even if those friends/acquaintances DON'T have a facebook account. According to this (http://www.facebook....153487311385068) anyone who wants to tag me can provide "my" email address so that I get notified, although there's no way Facebook could possible verify whether this is in fact my email address or just another email address belonging to whoever tagged me.
You mention how hard it is to manually remove tags on Facebook. Trying to do that when NOT on Facebook is simply impossible.

ndmushroom, on 12 June 2011 - 09:49 AM, said:

That feature appears to be new. I didn't used to be able to tag photos with the names of non-Facebook users, but now I can. that must have changed in the last month or so. I didn't see any option to email someone to notify them though, and the tag is only plain text. whether that still feeds facebook's facial recognition algorithms is a good question. I'll try to find out.

This is a tough situation. You can't simply say to stay off Facebook if you don't want involved since as you mentioned we can still be tagged in photos. I guess ultimately we have to stay away from situations or picture-taking that we don't want made public in some way.