Not to pick a fight or anything, but once a girl agrees to have her picture taken, she has basically given de facto permission for them to be posted on the web. I'm sure there are certain "legalities" involved here which may or may not technically give the lady certain rights to her image, but I fall back on two things. First, I firmly believe in "possession if nine tenths of the law".-- i.e. whom ever has the pictures, owns the pictures and can do whatever he/she wants with those pictures. Second, this is the digital age. Everyone has a camera. There is almost no expectation of privacy. If you allow yourself to have your picture taken in any setting (hobby or RL), expect those pics to pop up somewhere on the web. In this day and age, I can take picture and have it on Facebook in 60 seconds. Just food for thought. Originally Posted by CpalmsonNot to pick a fight, but you've made some pretty broad assumptions that serve your personal point of view but hardly hold true for the rest of us. There is no such thing as "basically giving de facto permission." Either you have explicit permission to post the pics or you do not have permission to post the pics. If you "assume" permission you are avoiding asking, maybe because you don't want her to reconsider her decision to allow the pics in the first place.
If you followed your arguments that "possession" and ease of access to the internet justify posting pics without explicit permission then it would be okay to post the face pics sent during screening and for providers to post pics of mongers. Hey what's sauce for ...
Let's phrase it this way: It is discourteous to assume permission. A gentlemen will always ask and will always make his intentions clear so that there can be question that she approved.
BTW, I had a discussion about a similar RL issue and the dangers of unthinking posting of pics on FB and the like. The upshot was that the ease of posting isn't an excuse for bad taste and the lack of discretion. No, it just made it imperative that people recognize the dangers.