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title: Best Privacy Policy Ever- Flickr
date: 2004-09-21T02:06:56Z
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I am not really a visual guy. i am all about the word. i do like photography but something about too much visual data in web content leaves me cold. i have had to unsubscribe from some blogs, like [Nat Friedman](http://www.nat.org/2004/september/)‘s, accordingly.

But i decided i needed to start [Flickr](http://www.flickr.com/)-ing, mostly because
a. its hot within blog [hermeneutics](http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/jcma/papers/1986-ai-memo-871/memo.html)
b. its part of the new [ATOM](http://atomenabled.org/)ic world of content feeds and splicing
c. i am a big believer in the [Creative Commons](http://creativecommons.org/)

Whatever my reason i decided it was time to go through the dreaded registration process, where i get reamed for a bunch of data i don’t need to provide for the service, and to which the harvester offers no guarantees whatsoever.

How wrong i was – a good policy should be short and to the point, without a bunch of loopholes or opt-outs (by the vendor, that is). Which is where Flickr comes in:

“Our hatred for spam is difficult to articulate. We promise unreservedly never to share your email address with anyone without your explicit permission”.

Awesome. Flickr – you have my full attention. i am off the take some pictures with my phone. content splicing here we come. [All my data are belong to me](http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/index.shtml), except of course all my data that are belong to us (the commons).