Thanks for posting this point of view Carey. Again, I'm pleased to see that you have found a new home here at #steemit and have an escape from the abusive environment of the other platforms.
With that being said, I find it absurd that anyone who is taking selfies and showing plenty of skin, is at all concerned about privacy. How is it possible that people think that there is ANY privacy at all connected to images that they upload to the Internet? If they are so concerned about how the pictures will be stored or categorized, then they should realize that they are in full control from this point moving forward and simply can STOP uploading those pics.
They can scratch that same itch by using disposable cameras that still use film or that provide instant Polaroid style pics that they can hold in their hand and store in a box in their closet, where only they can see them and control who else sees them. But they can't pass those pics around because anyone who has them can take a pic of the pic and then upload it... LOL You can't have it both ways.
The proverbial genie is out of the bottle, with respect to privacy and online pics. IMHO, these days privacy can only be easily achieved by keeping the content one is concerned about, OFFLINE.
BTW, it is definitely "...more alarming that most people didn’t know that image categorization was a feature at all". The mindless use of technology, with total disregard for the potential negative consequences that it poses, is a cancerous phenomenon in our society in the new milenium. It is at the very core of the growing foul, base, and low practice of revenge porn that ruins many young lives.
The practice of "active thinking" seems to be in an endangered state of being.