Personal info or private people shown without consent

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What triggers it

ID documents, home addresses, emails, phone numbers, medical records, login details, card or bank numbers, or photos of private people posted without their permission.

What Pinterest says

“Photos of private people posted on Pinterest without their permission”
Pinterest Community Guidelines
Official source: policy.pinterest.com/en/community-guidelines

We last checked this against Pinterest's page on .

How to fix it

Blur or crop personal data and faces of people who did not agree to appear.

Good to know

Readable mail, house numbers with street names, license plates, screens showing personal data, customers' faces filmed at their homes.

Can FYProof spot it?

A full check of your video looks for it in what's shown, what's said, the words on screen and the caption. What a check finds is an estimate, not a guarantee.

  • Video: looked at for this rule
  • Speech: looked at for this rule
  • On-screen text: looked at for this rule
  • Caption: looked at for this rule
  • Hashtags: not for this rule

Platforms change their rules often. This page sums up what Pinterest publishes; it isn't legal advice.

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