![]() "Only a small number of Flickr users were impacted, and we are in the process of directly contacting those individuals. This is not a widespread nor an ongoing issue - the software bug has been identified and fixed."įlickr photographers are sharing their frustrations via the same thread, as concerns emerge not just over privacy, but also the broken links and embeds on other websites that may have been affected. Only images uploaded between April and December of 2012 were in danger of being exposed.įlickr vice president Barry Wayn used a Flickr help forum thread to assuage concerns: ![]() It seems that the popular photo sharing service Flickr inadvertently made an unknown number of its users' private images viewable to the public.Īccording to a story on The Verge, a software bug caused the issue that made images marked private visible when browsing some users' photostreams between January 18 and February 7. ![]() Are your private images really private? A software bug recently made some private Flickr photos public.
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