Facebook Lets Advertisers Use Pictures Without Permission

Krokz sends in an LA Times piece that begins "A warning is bouncing through cyberspace today, landing on the Facebook statuses of many of the social networking site's users. The message: 'Facebook has agreed to let third party advertisers use your posted pictures without your permission.' It continues with a prescription of how you can protect your photos." The attention-grabbing incident in this furor involved a married woman, whose photo appeared in an ad for a dating service that was presented to her husband to view. Fortunately, both husband and wife had a sense of humor about it.

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[timmarhy]

grandpa? i'm 29 you spastic, but clearly you are a lot younger and inexperienced then i am because you failed to conceive the possibility that nudity doesn't matter in the slightest - if you were an attractive female they could easily use only your head shot. let alone there are still plenty of racey photo's of people on facebook anyway.