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There are privacy laws somewhere that cover the case of "you published a photo, and sometime later changed your mind and decided you didn't want it publicly available any more."?

Not yet, but the upcoming European Union new Data Protection Directive will give the public the right to forget " http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/1... ). This may offend your idea of basing things off quaint proverbs, but we do that all the time with laws.

However, this will soon be explicitly a legal requirement that Facebook (and other companies) will have to abide by.



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