Not sure I interpreted their lengthy announcement correctly, but from what I saw, I doubt that I'll have an issue with them. I just try to be doubly sure that I haven't copied anything I have "seen".
There is an outfit that collects Photos for Facebook, and I think it is clear that if you have put a picture on the Internet, or anywhere on any Computer, this company will deem that it belongs to them. I do have a half dozen picture of my badly bruised hindquarters that got that way when a man, who was texting, rear ended me. No one is going to pay to see my butt. LOL
I've never trusted "The Cloud", so anything that is MINE and that I do not wish to share is on a solid state drive. Now I realize that I have not gone far enough, and it is likely that the only thing that will be safe is a device that is not and will not be on the Internet. Not that anything I have created is so special but I am more grumpy and selfish than a Mountain Troll about those things. Oh well, can't take it to the grave.
Gwen
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My baby pictures
I have been tracking down hard-copy pictures of myself for years and either destroying them or hiding them away so that no one will see them until I am gone and it no longer matters. Your news makes me glad that I do not post pictures of any kind on the InterWebs.
Not "SO" Worried.
The worst I've had is when Pakistani, or Indian men pretending to be someone else, try to get my money, what there is of it.
One man had me so convinced that it took one of our own here. No I am not telling her name. She found that the man had given me the address of some sort of unoccupied building. She saved me. I had so wanted to have romance, and to go to the UK to live with him. I was painfully naive. Over the years, I've had some very good friends here.
Gwen
One of the perils of using Social Media
are outfits like this.
They are worse than the worse scum of the earth. Any photo you take is yours and you own the copyright ... until you post it on sites like Facebook. You have agreed to their terms and conditions and basically, they own you, your data and your photos.
I took more than 10,000 photos last year. Not one is posted on social media and a few have edited versions on a few sites. None of those that are posted have any content that can identify a living person. Data that identifies when it was taken is also removed prior to posting.
If we got over this craze for Selfies the world would be a better place and companies like the one (and there are many) mentioned would soon be out of business.
Their business model is about collecting information that is basically who was where and when and with whom. That is all lovely jubbly data to the advertisers. Don't feed the dragon people. You never know when it will come and bits you in the bits of your body that you sit on (sorry Gwen, just couldn't resist)
I am not and never have been and never will be on Social Media.
Isn't it time just to say NO to Social Media just like we should say No to drugs?
Samantha