http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20767537

Following a change in T&C's, Instagram (owned by Facebook) state that from the 16th January they have the right to sell to any third party who may want it, your data, your photos, location data and more. There is no opt out, and the only recourse if you do not want to risk seeing photos you have taken elsewhere is to delete your Instagram Account.

Cheers mannyo, saw they had updated their t&c's but hadn't got round to reading them

Will be deleting it once I get home

Not fussed if they want to attempt to sell on my pictures of my feet, lego advent calendars of a wedge of cash lol

Not fussed if they want to attempt to sell on my pictures of my feet, lego advent calendars of a wedge of cash lol

I'm not fussed really as I'm not on FB (nor will I ever be) and like you, it's only pics of my car, snowboarding etc..... Sell me, you won't get much!!!!

Mine is deleted now

anyone else wants to here's the link

https://instagram.com/accounts/login/?next=/accounts/remove/request/

Done

Guys, am I mis-underestimating the implications here?

Why are you closin your accounts??

You could find photos of you, your wife, kids etc. used in advertising brochures and other media worldwide. The media will pay facebook to use these photos and you will get nothing, and there is nothing you can do to stop it. The new T&C's also dissolve them of any responsibility should you disagree with the way the photos are being used.

This could for example lead to a picture of your family being used to advertise tobacco, a holiday, alcoholic drinks as an example.

There is no opt out of them selling any photos we upload. The only way is to nuke the account from orbit.

You could find photos of you, your wife, kids etc. used in advertising brochures and other media worldwide. The media will pay facebook to use these photos and you will get nothing, and there is nothing you can do to stop it. The new T&C's also dissolve them of any responsibility should you disagree with the way the photos are being used.

This could for example lead to a picture of your family being used to advertise tobacco, a holiday, alcoholic drinks as an example.

Yes but the likelyhood is, you won't! I know peoples reasoning for over reacting, but it all seems a little OTT. Are alcohol companys REALLY going to want a pictures of your missus in their advert? I can mostly see it as an issue for pro photographers/artists posting work on their as a portfolio etc.

Cool, cheers for the explanation guys

Yes but the likelyhood is, you won't! I know peoples reasoning for over reacting, but it all seems a little OTT. Are alcohol companys REALLY going to want a pictures of your missus in their advert? I can mostly see it as an issue for pro photographers/artists posting work on their as a portfolio etc.

Well the reason they are changing the T&C's is to do exactly that.

They have publicy stated that they have to 'monetise' the business in order to recoup the $700m they paid for it. Thats a lot of piccies they have to sell / use / exploit.

Once you give up the right to your images, god knows where they could end up.

I say vote with your feet. Ditch it now.

It's a crock anyway, my step son summed it up nicely, it's like smearing vasline on a lens to make your model look better

I hope Facebook don't follow suit with this, it would be a shame not to be able to share any photos with friends and family. Just have to be Flickr!

Instagram is a weird one because they will all be fairly poor quality phone pictures. You'd think they'd rather sell the ones uploaded to fb?

Thought Facebook was similar. Not 100% on their privacy terms

Facebook is not the same yet, although you may need to review your privacy settings. Facebook has a lot of fee paying extras, which Instagram lacks so there is no need for anything like this with Facebook since Facebook is making lots of money already for Mr Zuchenberg

Maybe some of the masses jumped too soon?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20777616

Thought Facebook was similar. Not 100% on their privacy terms

No one is,,,,,,they keep moving the goal posts when it comes to privacy :wonder:

Facebook is not the same yet, although you may need to review your privacy settings. Facebook has a lot of fee paying extras, which Instagram lacks so there is no need for anything like this with Facebook since Facebook is making lots of money already for Mr Zuchenberg Zuckerberg

FTFY, Manny

Maybe some of the masses jumped too soon?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20777616

Not quiet, they are being Re-active to a clause in the T&C by denying what it clearly states and putting some spin on the subject to try and deflect from what they do actually say

a business or other entity may pay us to display your username, likeness, photos, and/or actions you take, in connection with paid or sponsored content or promotions, without any compensation to you."

They will never admit that they got it wrong and try to deflect the damage which has already been done. The Instagram app in the apple store has gone overnight from a 5* number one app to a 1* app after more than 1000 people posted a 1* review.

Talk about jumping thte shark !!

You'll find almost all companies offering any sort of cloud based storage (photobucket, dropbox) have within their Ts&Cs a right to ownership (worldwide license) over the content you upload to them. They will usually say that they need that license to distribute that content to you. Instagram seem to have taken that a bit further by actively stating that they will sell your photos. I believe Facebook did something similar within advertising a little while back but backed off from it when people got shouty. I'm sure the fact that instagram is owned by Facebook has nothing to do with it.

there is no such thing as a free lunch.

No big deal for me, i use instagram alot mainly photos of my fabia n a few randoms. Nothing worth any fuss over.

Upload stuff encrypted then. Unauthorised decryption would be "dodgy". Or better, upload photos containing encrypted content. Wonder if Instagram have links to French companies?

Mehehehe

You could use steganography to plant offensive messages inside pictures to feck with the companies 'stealing' pictures.