Monday, July 07, 2008

In regards to privacy



Originally uploaded by olsenis.
For the past couple of years, I have been tagging all my Flickr photos with everyone’s full name. A handy trick for finding specific photos but over the weekend I found out that The Google has been indexing photos by the tags. The problem this presents is that a Google Image search on say my full name—could bring up some of my photos in the first couple pages of results. Even though virtually all my photos are PG it certainly isn’t cool.

I am changing all the tags to something more common (ie brian or briano). That should help them fade into the general Internet abyss. By the end of the day, everything should be fixed. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. Please let me know if you have any questions.

3 comments:

  1. This is taking longer then I thought. Just finished with the Hs. I'll leave another comment once I'm done.

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  2. All done. In the future I will make it a point to never use a first and last name together because the Google will probably zero in on it.

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