You can tag a photo with the names of people who are not on your Friends list. To remove your name from a Facebook photo that you've been tagged in, click "remove tag" next to your name in the image caption. If you added a tag to someone else's photo, only the person who posted the photo and the person tagged may remove the tag. The quick and simple solution is to select the photo, find your name in the caption, and click "remove tag." The "remove tag" option is also available to the person who administers the page a photo appears on, and you can remove any tags added to photos you've uploaded.
This causes tremendous clutter to her photo collection on the site. Unfortunately, some of her contacts tag her in nearly all the photos they upload to their Facebook accounts. She loves communicating and sharing with friends and family members located all over the world. If my friend decides to go the complaint route, I'll let you know if he succeeds in having the unflattering video removed. The video was posted by a former employer and now serves only as a reminder of why I don't make videos for a living. YouTube gives the uploader 48 hours to take action on the complaint and promises to notify you by e-mail once the uploader or Facebook has acted on the complaint.ĭoes the process work? I haven't tried it, although I'm tempted to ask the service to remove a video review I made back in 2007 for a GPS device that has been off the market for years. The form asks for your real name, your e-mail address, the user name of the person who posted the video, the video URL, and your reason for wanting the content removed. You're then led through a six-step wizard, after which you're presented with the Privacy Complaint form. If you select Privacy you're directed to the Protecting Your Privacy page, which has a link to the Privacy Complaint Process. This leads to the YouTube Safety Center page, where you're asked to identify your issue. Flag an inappropriate YouTube video by providing the reason you want it removed in the drop-down menu that appears after you click its flag icon. Otherwise, his best option is to open the video, click the flag icon beneath it, and choose Infringes My Rights > invades my privacy. If my friend were still in contact with the person, he could ask that they remove the unwanted content. In this case, someone else had uploaded the video.
(YouTube began requiring a Google account last year.)
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The YouTube Help site explains how to recover a lost account name or password, whether or not the account is linked to a Google ID. If he had posted the video and could remember the account name and password, he could simply select the video in his list of items and choose Actions > Delete. The video was the first result that appeared whenever anyone searched his name on the site, and while it wasn't as outrageous as some unflattering YouTube content can be, it certainly did not show him in his best light. He couldn't remember his old YouTube username and password, and the college e-mail address he used as his ID was long gone. I was reminded of how difficult it can be to erase inappropriate Web content when a friend asked me last week how he could remove an embarrassing video on YouTube that his friends had posted back in his college days. (I described 's privacy-protection services in a post from last January.)įile a complaint about privacy-invading YouTube videos Removing all traces of an image, video, post, or other information on a Web site becomes more difficult the longer the data resides on a public server.Įven if you sign up for a service such as that promises to excise inaccurate, unflattering, or other private data from public sites, there's a chance the material will resurface somewhere. Once material has been uploaded to a Web server, it begins to propagate to other servers and to the PCs of Web browsers.