Watch out, Facebook users. Mark Zuckerberg's social network giant recently modified the company's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities (i.e., Terms of Service ['TOS']) to now allege that Facebook claims trademark rights to the word 'Book.' (Read it below) Oh, and in case you forgot, Facebook also claims intellectual property rights…
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A new federal class action lawsuit (see below) charges that a host of well-known social media, app, and mobile device companies stole "literally billions of contacts" from users' personal address books by illegally 'harvesting' personal data on the sly, without their knowledge or consent. The 152-page complaint seeks monetary damages…
Facebook can be a nifty tool for spouses and divorce lawyers investigating suspicions of infidelity. Facebook itself can also tip you off to unfaithfulness by, for example, suggesting friends who are also married to your own spouse. One Washington State husband, Alan Leighton O'Neill née Alan Leighton Fulk, is learning…
The federal judge presiding over the lawsuit by plaintiff Paul Ceglia, the convicted felon claiming to own half of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook, just ordered Google to divulge Ceglia's Gmail account data and logs by March 5, 2012 Ceglia’s email accounts are at the heart of this lawsuit. Some were known,…
Three GOP presidential candidates got slapped with a patent infringement suit yesterday (read it below) by a California partnership that holds a patent with social media implications for the candidates' Facebook pages. EveryMD, a California partnership, contends that one of its patents that enables individual Facebook members like Defendants Santorum,…
The U.S. Magistrate Judge overseeing Paul Ceglia's ownership claim case against Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook ordered Ceglia to pay nearly $76,000 in attorneys' fees to Facebook's and Zuckerberg's lawyers for having to repeatedly go to court to compel Cegila to comply with the judge's earlier orders. That is in addition…
The Federal Trade Commission announced Monday that it warned six (6) mobile app "marketers" that their background screening products may violate the Fair Credit Reporting Act if the makers of the products had reason to believe the reports generated by these products were being used for employment screening, housing, credit,…
Facebook is readying its initial public offering (IPO) by preparing an S-1 registration statement for filing with the S.E.C. next week, and is said to be anticipating a $75 - $100 billion valuation for the social networking giant. According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, unnamed sources maintain…
Facebook and Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna filed lawsuits today (see below) accusing affiliate marketer Adscend Media, LLC along with company co-founders Jeremy Bash and Fehzan Ali of engaging in 'likejacking' a/k/a 'clickjacking' to deceive and trick users into giving out their personal information. "Likejacking" describes the sleazy practice…
A Freedom of Information Act ('FOIA') lawsuit (below) by the Electronic Privacy Information Center ('EPIC') reveals that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security paid contractors to monitor Facebook, Twitter other social networks, blogs, and comments on news media websites. The documents (below) disclose that the federal government paid at least…