Instagram has caused quite a stir with a quiet change to its terms of service, which now allow the company to share your content as well as user information with "affiliates" and "advertisers".
Sharing that information means, of course, that your content and information could end up in ads. And before you ask, no, you will not get compensated for your artwork.
The Twittersphere reflected the global outrage over this ToS change, which will go in effect on January 16 and analysts are already discussing the possible end of Instagram. In fact, Instagram may have shot itself in the foot with a monetization model that is well beyond the comfort level even of those you are willing to share their private life with the world.
The most aggressive rules state that underage users are not exempt from the ToS change and Instagram admits that ads may not necessarily marked as ads, which opens the door to abuse of content. The only way to protect yourself from Instagram's monetization bonanza is to delete your account.
Of course, if you have thought about your participation in Instagram before, you could have guessed that Burbn, the publisher of the software, was not in the welfare business and even if the new owner Facebook offers free access to its social network, the company has to generate money to pay employees and the free ride we have come to expect has to end at some point. The Instagram case is just one example, even if it is a pretty aggressive one.
that last paragraph is a product of cowardice.
So what, they have a picture of me smiling beside my ex, so what, they have my address info and my phone number - OMG they are going to go to my place and.......................... a..and................. oh thats right, i'm not doing anything illegal and there is no reason to even look in my direction.
If you're doing illegal stuff, yea, worry, be paranoid.
If not, who cares.
There are many professional photographers that have a hard enough time selling their work, and their pictures are extremely good.
Instagram Photos are often low quality and generic and uncreative due to the same boring filters being applied to every photo, there is just nothing truly unique. I can't see them making any money from selling the photos.
Then again, doesn't mean they won't use it.
who cares? really? wow no concern over privacy policy huh? if it's your ex sure she knows where you live, but what about strangers? what about other companies using your stuff to make profit without any compensation? so i imagine everything in your facebook is public since you're not doing anything illegal, right? then why use a password then?
Imagine the Orwellian surveillance state that exists today in the USA.
Imagine a person born today. For this person the government will have:
*Every email ever sent
*Ever website ever visited
*Every forum post visited
*Every forum post ever posted under ALL aliases
*Every item ever purchased on the internet
*Every item ever added to a shopping cart on the net but never purchased
*Every phone conversation ever had IN FULL SEARCHABLE TEXT
*Every text message
*GPS Coordinates and time of every location ever Visited (parents phones when young, person's phone when old enough,
*Every TV channel ever watched (Coming Soon™)
*...EVERYTHING DIGITAL
This is the surveillance state that exists RIGHT NOW... whether we like it or not.
but you say... who cares... I'm not doing anything illegal.
Scenario 1:
* Hitler #2 comes to power in the US
**QED
Scenario 2:
* You become inconvenient with your rabble rousing on the internet against some government or corporate abuse of some kind... and your disobedience is generating a significant-enough following to be a significant nusiance to those in power or those influencing those in power.
** Knock on the door... hello there John Doe, you might want to reconsider your rabble rousing considering that we know literally everything you've ever done in your life. That affair last year... should we tell your wife? ...etc, etc, etc...
What would America look like today had England had such power 200+ years ago?
Martin Luther King?
etc.
*** QED
extremely rare photographic gems produced by the everyday person are... NOT RARE AT ALL when you multiply it by 100,000,000 users.
get it?
Here comes the nutjob! I find it so IRONIC that all you nutjobs sit on the internet saying how the government is evil and run by Jews and reptiles and reptilian Jews and how the government is going to round us all up into FEMA camps and anyone who says anything about will disappear, yet the very fact that you are still here ranting about how evil the government is shows that you're wrong. Alex Jones is the king of this and your reply seems like you repeated it from him, which is mostly what all you nutjobs do. Repeat something from the web or Youtube and act like your smart and you know the truth. All you know how to do is repeat. The fact that Alex Jones is still on the internet and the radio ranting all day, foaming at the mouth, how the government is evil and taking away all our right, the whole time, he hasn't been scooped up by black helicopters, shows he's full of it. If he was exposing top secrets of the government, he would disappear, but since the government doesn't feel the need to ever bother him, doesn't that show you he is full of crap?
Of course not, you will probably call me a government paid agent/troll, hired by the NSA to go around the internet and discredit anyone who speaks the "truth".
As to the original topic of this post, this wasn't even Intstagrams intentions, and they even issued an updated TOS to make it more clear that they are not going to sell your photos for ad's or track your from space with the GPS in your phone. Yet another example of someone not understanding something, ranting on the internet and it goes viral, and turns out to be wrong.
http://blog.instagram.com/post/38252135408/thank-you-and-were-listening
"Our intention in updating the terms was to communicate that we’d like to experiment with innovative advertising that feels appropriate on Instagram. Instead 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. We are working on updated language in the terms to make sure this is clear."
Give it a rest, all it is from you panic ridden nuts is "MY PRIVACY! PIRATING DOESNT HURT DA INDUSTRY, ETC"
Again, the "big bad government" has 330 million people to deal with in your country, 80% of which are worse than you. Having your info able to be seen by government officials means nothing.
On top of that, you really think avoiding facebook is going to make it harder for the "government" to obtain your info?
lol, grow up kids.
already done by facebook from 2007 until now ....
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/12/instagram-addresses-tos-rage/
Not that I'd use the service anyway.
TED Talk - Very informative