As some of you may know I used Photobucket extensivly for the first 12-13 years to host photos used on the forum. This includes feature cars. I got an email from Photobucket notifying me of changes to their user agreement. The changes they are making are very concerning including a section about biometrics. Here's an excerpt:

By agreeing to this Biometric Policy you grant Photobucket, to the extent permitted by the laws of your region, the right to sell, lease, trade or otherwise profit from the disclosure of your Public User Uploaded Content which may contain Biometric Information that may be extracted.

2. DEFINITIONS

Biometric Information Definition: Biometric Information refers to data that depict or describe physical, biological, or behavioral traits, characteristics, or measurements of or relating to an identified or identifiable person’s body. Biometric Information includes, but is not limited to, depictions, images, descriptions, or recordings of an individual’s facial features, iris or retina, finger or handprints, voice, genetics, or characteristic movements or gestures (e.g., gait or typing pattern). Biometric Information also includes data derived from such depictions, images, descriptions, or recordings, to the extent that it would be reasonably possible to identify the person from whose information the data had been derived. By way of example, both a photograph of a person’s face and a facial recognition template, embedding, faceprint, or other data that encode measurements or characteristics of the face depicted in the photograph constitute Biometric Information. There are different definitions for biometric information, or biometric data, under different state laws. Within this Biometric Policy we generally adopt the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) definition. If you would like to opt-out from granting Photobucket the right to sell, lease, trade or otherwise profit from Biometric Information contained in your Public User Uploaded Content. Opting out requires account deletion.

While most of the photos I have stored are cars I'm still disturbed about this policy. Therfore I'm cancelling my Photobucket account. I have 90% of the images on there stored locally however it'd take me months to replace all of the hosted photos on threads with images from my computer. 

This has me wondering if I should look at transferring the whole forum to another platform, one that has more features and looks better on a cell phone. I'm looking at Vbulletin Cloud. It's about half the cost of this platform and being on the cloud means they will look after security. I've sent them an email asking if they can migrate all the data from this board to their platform but I have my doubts. What I could do is have both sites up and running and we could slowly move the most informative threads manually to the new site. 

There's a good chance all login data would be lost meaning members would have to re-register. 

I welcome your thoughts and suggestions on this.

We could stay where we are but lose quite a few old images or

Move to a new platform with better features, be cell phone friendly, cost half as much (meaning I don't have to ask for donations as often) but potentially lose quite a few old threads and require everyone to re-register

We'd also likely lose our search relevence on Google etc so we may be harder for newbies to find than the existing forum.