Its alright - we know where you've been...

These are the permissions you are expected to grant to Yahoo just so that your Flickr images can automatically be posted to your Facebook account. Sorry but I really don't think you need to know any of my information, let alone my friends' information.

"Yahoo 'censored' Flickr comments
Yahoo has been accused of censorship on its popular photo website Flickr, in a row that has highlighted the issue of copyright in the online age. Earlier this month photographer Rebekka Gudleifsdóttir discovered that seven of her pictures were reportedly being sold by a UK-based online gallery. She raised the issue on Flickr but a photo and comments were deleted."

This is precisely why I watermark and add additional copyright statements to all my images.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Yahoo 'censored' Flickr comments

The copyright violators in question are only-dreemin and you'll find that they are already mentioned on quite a few blogs. At time of writing, the photographer was not able to persue them through the UK courts as she couldn't afford to do so - so they get away with it.

The moral of the story is: never upload full-resolution images to the web, and watermark any images you do upload, preferably place in areas that would make it very difficult or impossible to edit out.

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