I think there is a misunderstanding here. You don't really give Fotopedia full access to your account, you give yourself full access to your account using the Fotopedia service. Once logged in to your Flickr account with your Flickr credentials, you will be able to access all your pictures and do whatever you want with them. Nobody else will have this access. We do what all other services using the Flickr APIs do, give you access to your Flickr assets through another service.

This is what appears on screen:

By authorizing this link, you'll allow Fotopedia to:

• Access your Flickr account (including private content)

Fotopedia will not have permission to:

• Upload, Edit, or Replace photos and videos in your account
• Interact with other members' photos and videos (comment, add notes, favorite)
• Delete photos and videos from your account

It seems to me that Fotopedia (its developers or all users?) will have access to my whole Flickr account, which I'm very reluctant to allow. Unless this point is cleared up (and private content taken out of the equation), I think I'll pass.

This indeed sounds confusing. What the text should say is:

By authorizing this link you allow yourself to access your Flickr account (including private content) through the Fotopedia service.

At Fotopedia we do this to allow you to add photos you have uploaded to Flickr already without having to upload them again. Nobody else than you on Fotopedia will be able to do so and access your Flickr account. We won't push all your Flickr photos to Fotopedia, you get to choose which ones you want to add or not to add. Unless you want to add private content, it will never appear on Fotopedia.

I'm not sure what else I can add. Flickr phrases this text to cover itself in case their is a problem with an unreliable service. Fotopedia has thousands of users, many of whom have added photos from their Flickr account to the encyclopedia.

Hello Philip, 

Fotopedia here behaves just like a standard Flickr third party application to let you access your own photos on flickr. Fotopedia never uses your flickr credentials to access your contents other than to let you use it. 

Unfortunately, as a third-party Flickr application, you can only choose among 3 levels of permission: 'read', 'write' or 'delete'. The most limited level is 'read', and this is the one Fotopedia uses. There is currently no way to ask Flickr permission to read only your public photos. 

Here is Flickr documentation on this topic: http://www.flickr.com/services/api/auth.howto.web.html

-- Betrand Guiheneuf. VP Engineering. Fotopedia.

Please, REMOVE all my photos from flickr.

I didn't add 1... but there are thousands in Fotopedia:

 http://www.fotopedia.com/search/page/all?q=Valter+Jacinto&domain=fotopedia&sort=relevance

 I Want all Removed from Fotopedia as soon as possible.

Valter, I already answered your email. I will answer here for the community.

Fotopedia enables it's users to search for photos marked as Creative Commons on Flickr, which your photos are. Many of your photos ended up on Fotopedia with the contribution of members of Fotopedia who found them relevant to encyclopedia articles.

By setting your photos as CC you actually allowed Flickr to send us your photos and Fotopedia members to reuse them. If your photos Flickr license setting remains CC this can happen again.

We will remove the photos with your help as soon as possible.

Thanks