Here’s the response I received from Flickr support today.
Hello William,
Thank you for contacting Flickr Customer Care.
Im sorry that your photo was uploaded to a blog when your personal
setting say that you dont want that;but as you said if you share a
photo that you marked as private with a group you are a member of, it’s
as if other group members have full access to that photo. They can add
comments, notes, and tags, (everything other than blogging) regardless
of the photo’s privacy setting.The photo isn’t displayed for people who aren’t members of the group.
Your photo retains the privacy settings you set for anyone who isn’t a
group member. It also stays in your photostream, available to everyone
who can view it. You (or a group administrator) can remove your photo
from the pool at any time.You can modify your settings here:
http://www.flickr.com/account/prefs/blogging/?from=privacy
Only you and the group administrators can remove a photo from a group
pool. You can easily remove your photo from groups that it has been
added to.Go to the photo page. Then, on the bottom-right of the screen, you will
see a list of all the groups/pools that this photo belongs to.Click on the “X” next to the name of the group that you’d like this
photo removed from. That should do the trick.I apologize for all the inconveniences this may have caused you.
Thank you again for contacting us. If you have any other questions,
please feel free to reply to this email.Regards,
[Name Redacted]
Flickr Customer Care
Basically, your wishes come in last with regard to Flickr account settings of your photos. I loaded the image into several groups. I have no idea which ones specifically allow blogging or not. There doesn’t seem to be any indication to what groups do to override your account settings.
There’s another loop, too. One of the people who commented on my photo noticed that the blog in question seems to be just importing the RSS feed for a group and posting the results on the blog. Technically simple, but it demonstrates that Flickr has a lot of holes that override your account settings.
