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josephlord | karma 2733 | avg karma 1.78 · 2013-05-23 12:43:57+00:00

What are the privacy/access controls/sharing facilities like? Are the terms of service and privacy policy OK?

A convenient way to store online and share selected photos and videos would be good. I don't trust FB/Google with images of myself and my family or my geo-tags. I would automatically be similarly sceptical of Yahoo bet a quick glance at the main TOS didn't show anything obviously objectionable.

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Terretta | karma 18480 | avg karma 2.96 · 2013-05-23 12:48:26+00:00

Flickr even offers geofencing that will prevent people from seeing any geotags within zones you mark out.

theshrike79 | karma 10442 | avg karma 2.58 · 2013-05-23 08:07:10

What drove me to flickr as opposed to other places years ago was the detailed access control it offers.

I can have public photos, photos of family events and pictures from drunken escapades on the same account and I can reliably and easily have just certain people have access to them via guest passes.

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pessimism | karma 547 | avg karma 6.29 · 2013-05-23 14:44:44+00:00

I wrote a thing about how your favourites are public and searchable with not opt-out on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5756487.

Other than that, Flickr is one of the most privacy-conscientious services I know—which is why it took me by surprise that there weren’t controls for my favourites.

Flickr’s (general) emphasis on privacy and ownership rights are their main features to me. Maybe those are just hold-overs from the early days when monetizing your users’ data weren’t in vogue, though.

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josephlord | karma 2733 | avg karma 1.78 · 2013-05-23 15:35:06+00:00

Thanks, your link is to this topic though. I think you meant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5751591

I've also asked a question on that topic.

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pessimism | karma 547 | avg karma 6.29 · 2013-05-23 16:52:33+00:00

Thanks. Got a bit recursive there.