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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.
I guess some people will put up with anything in exchange for appearing in the media somewhere. Frankly, after all the very public warnings about facebook I have no sympathy for anyone foolish enough to use their service.
Caveat Utilitor
What is "tech" about this?
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It seems at this point like Facebook's plan was to make people think that it was an indispensable part of their lives and then abuse them like this because they know most users still won't quit.
There, fixed it for you.
It can not be stated too often or too forcefully. If you are stupid enough to put anything you might consider to be even remotely private onto a network that is accessible to a sizable chunk of the world's population (i.e., a potentially very public place), then you really shouldn't be surprised when that thing turns up as a subject of discussion on Slashdot. Not that I'm complaining about some of the "should have been kept in the shoe box" stuff that has hit the net, but STFU with the whining about privacy already.