Millions of Flickr images were sucked into a database called MegaFace. Now some of those faces may have the ability to sue. One day in 2005, a mother in Evanston, Ill., joined Flickr. She uploaded ...

In 2012, Pinterest broke out to become a wildly popular site and app for collecting media across the Internet. People pin photos into collections called boards, which serve as big catalogs of objects.

Yet revelations as to how the company obtains images for their database of nearly 30 billion photos have caused an uproar. Last week, CEO Hoan Ton-That said in an interview ...