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Perhaps you're thinking of this story?

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/jun/11/smith-family-p...

When the Smiths of Missouri – an all-American family with the regulation two blond children – posed for their Christmas photo, little did they know they would end up on a billboard thousands of miles away in the Czech Republic.

Just under a fortnight ago, a family friend of Jeff and Danielle Smith was travelling in Prague when he spotted some familiar faces beaming out of a poster advertising a grocery store's home delivery service.




I've never read that one. I may have been wrong about it happening to somebody in particular, but i think it was something to do with when this happened:

https://mashable.com/2013/09/05/facebook-ads-photo/#fanstwJM...

That I was thinking about.

I think from what i can tell, the difference is now they're being sold to third parties instead of being used internally. If i'm not wrong.


Thanks, I thought I was going crazy the way everyone seemed to forget your photos already are used in ads.

Thanks for clarifying what is new here.




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