Ancestry.com Just Gave Itself the Rights to Your Beloved Family Photos

guest · Aug 11, 2021

Ancestry.com Just Gave Itself the Rights to Your Beloved Family Photos
August 11, 2021
https://gizmodo.com/ancestry-com-just-gave-itself-the-rights-to-your-belove-1847456138

The Blackstone-owned genealogy giant Ancestry.com raised a ton of red flags earlier this month with an update to its terms and conditions that give the company a bit more power over your family photos. From here on out, the August 3 update reads, Ancestry can use these pics for any reason, at any time, forever.

If you’ve never used Ancestry.com before, one of the site’s biggest draws is its database of public and private family trees that are curated by the site’s millions of members.
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By uploading any of these documents, Ancestry states, the company’s new ToS clarifies that you grant it the right to do... pretty much anything with the uploads.

Naturally, not too many Ancestry users were too keen on the idea of signing away any legal rights to family pictures and historical documents. A few days later, the company issued a follow-up blog in an attempt to assuage some of these concerns.

“This change to the Ancestry Terms and Conditions is consistent with the manner in which other genealogy research platforms handle user-provided content,” the company wrote in the August 6 post.
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These new terms go into effect on September 2nd. If you’re using the site and want to keep the rights to those beloved family photos, it might be best to take them down ASAP.
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EASTER · Aug 12, 2021

Only if they can dig them out of my boxes closet

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