Re: flickr viewing permissions

James <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.music.dadl.ot
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On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Peter T. Chattaway
<petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, James wrote:
>>
>> Peter - you post most of your pictures for anyone to see.  Have you
>> thought much about this?
>
> Not much, I must admit.  Most of our photos are open to everyone, but a few
> of them are "family only" (or something like that) because they captured our
> apartment in an especially messy state or something like that (but the twins
> were doing someething too cute *not* to share...).

:)  That seems like a reasonable distinction... photos at home vs. out
and about...

> A few weeks ago, I discovered that a number of our photos -- including one
> of our doula showing our firstborn child to us in the operating room (I'm
> wearing a surgical mask and everything) -- had ended up on a website called
> Flickr Hive Mind with a lot of *other* pictures that apparently feature
> people with my first name and/or my wife's first name.

Wow.  It does look like what you're able to see on there is different
when you're signed into flickr vs. not, so it's maybe piggybacking on
your login somehow?  Still...

> I must admit that *that* gave me pause.

No kidding. :)

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