Are All Online Images Fair Game?

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02 February 2010It's easy to pinch a photo from a website and post it in a new context. But how is the easy circulation of images online challenging our ideas about privacy asks Jason Wilson in New Matilda?

Forget about hiding your disreputable Facebook party photos from your boss and your mum. What happens to those carefully selected profile photos that you post to your social media profiles, your email accounts, and your work website? Although these vetted images might not reveal much in the way of juicy details about our lives offline, they can circulate far beyond the original context in which they're posted. Which brings me to my predicament.

Over the weekend, I saw a robot wearing my face.

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