"To help us deliver interesting paid or sponsored content or promotions, you agree that a business may pay us to display your username, likeness, photos, in connection with paid or sponsored content or promotions, without any compensation to you, " it said in its terms of use.

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Earlier this month it changed its Terms of Service so that it had the right to share member photos in advertising without notice, and presumably without compensation.

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In fact, without massive fiscal stimuli, subdued compensation and the recession would have pushed consumer outlays down substantially.

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