Played With That Viral Age-Guesser This Week? You Just Gave Microsoft A Bunch Of Free Photos To Use

[arcane1]

If you use Facebook, Twitter, or basically any part of the internet at all, sometime in the last 24 hours you’ve seen Microsoft’s newest tool, the age-guesser. Everyone’s sharing it, using it, and laughing over (or feeling insulted by) the results. But the tool’s rapid spread also accidentally highlights one of the biggest challenges of the digital age: the fine print.

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Microsoft isn’t planning to make age guessing a fixture of its Office Suite anytime soon; the tool was put together quickly as a demo for the company’s Azure cloud platform and services. But buried in the fine print of the Azure terms and services, as Fast Company points out, is a clause that might give Microsoft more power than you want them to have:

By posting, uploading, inputting, providing, or submitting your Submission, you are granting Microsoft, its affiliated companies, and necessary sublicensees permission to use your Submission in connection with the operation of their Internet businesses (including, without limitation, all Microsoft services), including, without limitation, the license rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate, and reformat your Submission; to publish your name in connection with your Submission; and to sublicense such rights to any supplier of the Website Services.

In other words: Microsoft now maintains the rights to use any image you uploaded in basically any way they want. And that “public performance” bit is basically an out that prevents you from suing on copyright grounds if they do.


-more:

http://consumerist.com/2015/05/01/played-with-that-viral-age-guesser-this-week-you-just-gave-microsoft-a-bunch-of-free-photos-to-use/

[rjsquirrel]

1. Lol

I was saying just this to the local idiots.

[Skittles]

2. it's also a good way to out naive people

target them for sales calls

[SomethingFishy]

3. I have another one for you...

Yesterday one of my kids was applying online for a Job at Hardees. The company that issues the "employment questionnaire" included in it's fine print the right to give your information to whoever they wanted. Of course he wanted the job so he filled out the application. The very next day by 9am there were more than 10 texts from different companies, mostly "Headhunters" that will, for a fee get you a job.

The worst part was if he didn't accept the terms, he couldn't fill out the application. In other words if you want a job, we get to sell your information. This country is going down the Capitalist toilet.

[arcane1]

4. WHAT???? They're outsourcing application reviews to data-sellers????

I need to dig deeper into this. Thanks for posting!!!!

[SomethingFishy]

5. Yeah it was fucked up... Hang on I'll see if I can get you the name of the company..

[SomethingFishy]

7. People Answers is the name of the company that does the "application questionnaire"...

I was so pissed I told my son if they called, not to take the job and to tell them why.

[arcane1]

8. Thank you!!!

[arcane1]

10. Definitely appears to be their policy. Lots of statements like this in there:

Do I have the choice to opt-in or opt-out of any uses of my Personal Information?

We recognize the importance of providing you with the choice to "opt-out." You can "opt-out" of receiving any email notifications by contacting our Privacy Officer at the Contact Address. However, with respect to any Personal Information that is sensitive in nature, you may only “opt-out” by declining to provide us with the information. If you choose to “opt-out” by declining to provide us with Personal Information, you may not use this Service or the Site.


https://www.peopleanswers.com/pa/testHelpItem.do?helpItemCode=LEG04

[SomethingFishy]

11. Yup, let us sell your info, or forget about the job.

And that was for a minimum wage job at Hardees. I can't imagine what the headhunters thought they were gonna get out of 16 year old high school student.

[arcane1]

12. They'd have his indentity now and forever, and could update and cross-reference the data over time.

This is obscene.

[RoccoR5955]

13. He should ask for a cut. n/t

[Exilednight]

6. What would happen if someone..

Uploaded your photo without your permission?

[GeorgeGist]

9. I'm sure many people did ...

Microsoft lawyers must be good.

[RoccoR5955]

14. With all the surveilence cameras around

They already have everyone's picture.
And if they were to use mine, it will melt the glass of the lens if they focus on it too long.

[Oneironaut]

15. I did it, but was also aware of this. It's the same with Facebook.

Once you put your picture on a website, they own it. If you don't want your image being used anywhere, don't upload it to websites.

[pipi_k]

18. I wasn't aware of it but

it doesn't really bother me, as I was able to choose a photo that I didn't think was too hideous.

What does bother me is when people take stealth photos and post them on Facebook without my permission. I have a relative by marriage who fancies herself a photographer. She's not...she's a person who takes a shitload of pictures. A couple of years ago I decided just for the hell of it to count up all the photos in all the albums on her facebook page.

Ready for this?

I counted over 18,000 (yes, that's eighteen THOUSAND) photos. By now it's got to be over 22,000 photos.

So anyway, she's obsessed with taking pictures of her kid and posting them by the dozens every week. Which is her business I suppose, and I don't have to "like" every single one, and I'm sure it pisses her off, but WTF. The more you "like" something, the more of it you see on Facebook.

One family function she took a sneak photo of me and Mr Pipi, and posted it on Facebook. It really was hideous, and I asked her nicely to please photoshop me out and just post the photo of her dad if she wanted. She removed the entire photo.

Sigh...

And you know, there is nothing anyone can do about that. I checked. All you can do is keep asking people NOT to post your image without asking.

I'm getting to the point where I want to wear a burka to certain family functions.

[freshwest]

16. All the freebies are there to steal your data, your privacy, and or them to copyright your life. n/t

[seveneyes]

17. That's why I send them mugshots of bad people

They can sue from behind bars for all I care.

[Codeine]

19. Use it in good health, guys -- I'm dead sexy. nt