There are other options for photo sharing that don’t hand over every pixel to the Facebook megamind.
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Facebook introduces “Moments” – supposedly a safer way to share photos
Unlike Facebook’s “Photo Sync” feature, Moments is a separate photo app that doesn’t upload anything until you tell it to. Paul Ducklin wonders how much safer you’ll be from over-sharing your pics…
Koppie Koppie sells photos of your kids to prove you shouldn’t post them online
Two “privacy advocates” running an online store that sells mugs printed with pictures of children are intentionally stirring up controversy by grabbing photos from Flickr. The duo behind Koppie Koppie say it’s perfectly legal, but they hope you get mad about it anyway.
Insta-sham: Instagram fixes its no-so-private photo bug… well, sort of
Instagram has fixed a privacy flaw that allowed anyone with the URL to see photos posted on the service, even if the user’s account was set to private. At least, it has kind of fixed it.
Cat stalker knows where your kitty lives (and it’s your fault)
Professor Owen Mundy has mapped a million cats’ locations on to a world map in a purrfect illustration of the extent of the data that’s publicly available from photo-sharing sites. He isn’t even a cat person. He could just have easily called the project “I know where your kid sleeps”.