Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Users sue Facebook


A group of site users Facebook filed a suit in California courts, accusing the company of abusing the personal information you enter into this social network.

According to the Facebook group of five plaintiffs intended to gather the greatest amount of personal data of users, it would be violating federal laws that restrict the access of others to personal communications of each user.

The lawsuit states that social networks increase the information shared by users (personal data, photos, videos, reviews, etc.) with different companies in order to hire these services to place their advertising.

It is strange to understand how these users then register with the site (by accepting the contract in question) and use this to "socialize", then want to be compensated for their privacy has been breached. Under this argument any site for sharing information of its users would be violating the law.

We'll see how it goes with these five guys with their application, in one of those hit the stick at the cat getting a good compensation.

Link: techcrunch.com

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