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Instagram Privacy Concerns
After backlash brews over a new privacy policy for a photo sharing service, Instagram responds and says the outrage is ober nothing. Now Instagram says its users have nothing to fear.
The
new privacy policy posted by Instagram was set to take effect on January 16th. This section in the policy is what made some users upset:
"To
help us deliver interesting paid or sponsored content or promotions,
you agree that a business or other entity may pay us to display your
username, likeness, photos (along with any associated metadata), and/or
actions you take, in connection with paid or sponsored content or
promotions, without any compensation to you."
Photographer
Josh Welch often takes pictures of his friend Wayne Coyne of the
Flaming lips and then posts those pictures to Instagram. Welch found
the new privacy policy troublesome.
“There's something
about knowing that your images can be sold and published without your
permission that sort of strikes at what we as photographers think is
fair," said Welch.
Along
with his professional pictures Welch also posts pictures of his family
on Instagram. Photos he doesn’t want sold.
“When we post something on
Instagram, it's public for the world to see, but you don't consent or
necessarily agree that someone else can take that image and sell it or
publish it without your consent,” Welch said.
Coyne,
the subject of many of Welch’s photographs and lead singer for The
Flaming Lips, doesn’t share his sentiment.
“It would be nothing but
flattering to think that they have your picture and they think it's so
great that they're going to put it into an ad," said Coyne.
After all the backlash, Instagram
wrote the following in a blog Tuesday afternoon.
“…It
was interpreted by many that we were going to sell your photos to
others without any compensation. This is not true and it is our mistake
that this language is confusing. To be clear: it is not our intention
to sell your photos.”
The company says it plans to modify the wording in its privacy policy to make it more clear.
MARISA MENDELSON
FOX 25 NEWS
MLMENDELSON@OKCFOX.COM
Posted: Tuesday, December 18 2012, 10:43 PM CST
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Search continues in creek for missing Okla. teen
May 25, 2013 22:59 GMT
KINGFISHER, Okla. (AP) -- Authorities continue to search for a Kingfisher teenager who disappeared after jumping into Uncle John Creek.
Police say 17-year-old Taylor Faine jumped into the creek Thursday and did not resurface. Kingfisher Fire Chief Randy Poindexter told The Oklahoman (http://bit.ly/10s2oB6 ) on Saturday that manmade dams have been built in hopes of finding Faine's body.
Authorities say Faine was swimming with friends in an area where no swimming signs are in place because of dangerous currents in the creek.
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