Has Flickr / Yahoo sold your Photos for AI Facial Recognition?

[CameraQuest]

The New York Times

"How Photos of Your Kids Are
Powering Surveillance Technology
Millions of Flickr images were sucked into
a database called MegaFace. Now some
of those faces may have the ability to sue."

READ STORY HERE

 

[mbisc]

Lesson from this and many similar stories: don't put personal photos in Flickr, or any other social media websites !

 

[Peter Jennings]

Flickr is now no longer being controlled by Yahoo. I wonder if the current owners have a stronger privacy policy? Being a Flickr user, I should find out.

 

[css9450]

They'd have a hard time finding any faces to recognize on my Flickr site; I don't shoot people!

 

[Ko.Fe.]

I’m not sure how photos of recognized people I have are in jeopardy.
Or people I don’t know.
I have stopped dumping my kids photos with every new camera, lens I have long time ago.

 

[Huss]

My cats are going to be so hissed off.