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Gender: Female
Status: Divorced
Age: 27
Sign: Sagittarius

City: Boise
State: Idaho
Country: US
Signup Date: 3/2/2005

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Thursday, June 11, 2009 

Category: Blogging
Imagine this: you take some pictures of you happy family, post them to your favorite sites to share with your friends, maybe even make a Christmas card.  Everyone with happy, smiling faces are looking at the camera.  6 months or maybe a year goes by and you probably don't think much of your pictures until you get that phone call.

Which phone call?  I'm sure you all have some ideas formulated already.  The one in particular I'm speaking about is the one a woman from Missouri, Danielle Smith, received just the other day.  Her friend happened to be driving through Prague (as all of our friends are known to do from time to time) and saw her smiling life-sized family portrait in the store front window of a Czech grocery store.

Now how did the owner get the photo? Apparently he found it online and thought it was computer generated.  Usually people make a lot of money when their image is used in advertising so now I know you're wondering what he's offering in recompense.. He said he would be happy to email an apology to the family if they'd like one and he's "making efforts to have it removed".  Seriously, how hard would it be to just ask the manager or an employee to take the thing down?  Makes me wonder if my kids are out there anywhere.  Scary thought.  ..But I'd probably just tell him to leave it up and take offers from any other interested parties.
John
John Frade

 
Gotta make sure you're always using pictures where you can't make out the person's face.  "That's you?  Let me hold it up here.  Nah, that looks nothing like you.  That could be anybody!  Get out of here before I call the cops!"

 
Posted by John on Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 11:07 AM
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