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Flickr Takes Another Sad Turn, Gets Bought by Something Called SmugMug
In the latest of an endless series of unfortunate events to befall the once beloved photo-sharing service Flickr, the company has been resurrected from the grave of Yahoo and bought for an undisclosed amount by premium photo-hosting platform SmugMug.
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That privacy policy was something else, I'm currently waiting for Flickr to send me an email containing my 50 pictures so I can delete them from the service. I assume their privacy policy is standard but the fact they say they will use that information and sell it to their partners who can then sell it to their partners, etc makes me wary. Also, it says they can collect info about you from other providers and store it to form a more complete profile on you.