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Daily Wrap: The Facebook Class Action Lawsuit and more
Feb 23rd
Murphy P.A. files a class action lawsuit against Facebook. This and more in today’s Daily Wrap.
Sometimes it’s difficult to catch everything that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories. We give you a daily recap of what you missed in the ReadWriteWeb Community, including a link to some of the most popular discussions in our offsite communities on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ as well.
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Facebook Faces Nationwide Class-Action Lawsuit
Murphy P. A. a Baltimore law firm, filed a class action lawsuit against Facebook, alleging that Facebook tracked user data after logging off of Facebook. Facebook ceased the process in September. While there are several similar state-level suits pending, this is the first nationwide suit that could encompass every U.S. user that signed up to Facebook before their cookies and privacy policy was updated.
From ReadWriteWeb reader, Clearfocuslaw:
I think #privacy will be major #legal #risk in 2012. Further proof: Facebook Faces Nationwide Class-Action Lawsuit rww.to/y1u7wC
— Eric Hsu (@Clearfocuslaw) February 23, 2012
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Facebook Shares Could Be Overvalued by First Day of Trading
More than 1,000 people are now trading shares of Facebook on private markets, well above the 50 to 100 that most companies have ahead of their initial public offering.
Sam Hamadeh, head of research firm PrivCo., who made the current shareholder estimates for Bloomberg News, said that has pushed Facebook’s valuation over $100 billion and could limit the returns the company’s first public investors will see if they buy shares soon after the company goes public. (more)
Stop Accepting Facebook Friend Requests
What happens when we don’t accept friend requests? Facebook brings them back in yet another attempt to “help” us get to know other people who may be in our network.
When Facebook first entered college campuses in 2004, we friended people we knew. It became a game, a way to waste time between classes and something to do when we should have been working on papers. There was no need for us to try and figure out who our mutual friends were because we saw them in real life on a daily basis. They sat next to us in classrooms, at lunch; we saw them at parties, we ate brunch together on the weekend. Things were simple. (more)
Twilio Brings VoIP Calling to Any App With New iOS SDK
Imagine playing a game of Scrabble on your iPhone against your mother. You and Ma are competitive and these games tend to turn into rabid battles for literary supremacy. Also, she’s your mother so you want to talk about how things are with the family, your nephew and if Pa is taking that new job in Chicago. So, you press a button in the app and create a voice connection running over your data connection. No dialing, no minutes used. Just a data connection straight from the app. (more)
Survey: 88% of Businesses Can’t Provide a Single Customer View
If one of the goals of cloud computing is to enable anytime, anywhere access to a single view of a database, a study released today by the DataFlux division of SAS shows we may not be getting close to reaching it anytime soon. Some 551 data management professionals in North America were asked whether their businesses’ data centers enabled a single customer view (SCV) – one database or data store that defines customer data for all software and services. (more)
Bing Now Lets You Verify Whether Search Results Are About You
Ever Google someone before a blind date or deciding to hire them? Of course you have.
But going forward, if you choose to Bing them instead of Google them, you may end up getting results they have manually approved. Microsoft has launched Linked Pages for its Bing search engine. The feature, which is currently only available to users in the U.S., essentially lets you control what people see when they search you. (more)
The Holy Grail of Rich Location Data Made Easy With new SDKs from Geoloqi
The holy grail of mobile geo-location services is persistent, aware, real-time data delivered straight to your device. It is incredibly difficult to pull off. Especially if the idea is to, “give you vision beyond the Greek gods.” Accuracy, battery life and location-aware push messaging are hard to build and even harder to implement on a scalable basis. (more)
ResearchGate: It’s Facebook for Scientists
It’s awesome to connect with other like-minded science folk on Facebook, the world’s largest social network, but sometimes you want to keep the talk insider baseball – and that means no interjections from your mom, brother and imaginary friends. Seriously. (more)
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How DMCA Takedown Notices Work [Infographic]
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Its “safe harbor” provision is what draws the line between pirates and legally legitimate Web companies. That line isn’t always crystal clear, as the ongoing saga of Grooveshark demonstrates.
Few would call the DMCA perfect, but its attempt at modestly redefining copyright for the digital age has had a major impact on the way the Web works, and in many cases has enabled innovation to flourish. Without it, sites like YouTube might not be what they are today. (more)
Do Not Track: The CAN-SPAM of 2012
Remember in 2003, when the CAN SPAM Act was signed into law, how spam just stopped overnight? Yeah, me neither. Just as CAN SPAM did little to curb spam, having Google and Microsoft sign on to Do Not Track (DNT) still leaves a lot to be desired. (more)
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Facebook Faces Nationwide Class-Action Lawsuit
Feb 23rd
A Baltimore law firm filed a nationwide class action lawsuit against Facebook Friday, claiming the social network illegally tracked user activity on the Internet.
In its claim, the law firm Murphy P.A. said the company “repeatedly ignored” warnings from a user who noticed Facebook continued to track users’ activities on the Internet even after they had logged off. Facebook finally confirmed the practice in Septmeber and promised to make corrections within 24 hours.
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Facebook is in a quiet period ahead of its initial public offering.
“The days when online service providers can run roughshod over the privacy rights of their customers are over,” said Murphy, P.A. Founding Partner William Murphy, Jr. said in a statement. “Companies that operate commercial websites, such as Facebook, need to realize the public is increasingly concerned about its privacy rights. Perhaps even more importantly, there is a growing community of security experts and bloggers that is extremely savvy about internet technology and committed to ensuring that people’s privacy rights are respected and protected.”
The company faces similar claims in Mississippi, Kansas and other states, but this is the first that seeks to bring a nationwide class against Facebook which could potentially involve every U.S. user who signed up for the service before Facebook updated its cookies and privacy policy. All of the lawsuits claim Facebook violates state and federal wiretap laws, among other accusations.
Murphy P.A. partnered with the San Francisco office of Girard Gibbs LLP to file the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
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Class Action Lawsuit Against Google For Ads On Parked Domains Turned Down
Jan 9th
paidContent reports the lawsuit brought against Google in 2008 over quality of ads showing on parked or error message web pages has been thrown out by the court. On Thursday, January 5th, U.S. District Judge Edward Davila turned down the class action suit brought against Google. He said he would…
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Lawsuit Over Twitter Followers May Not Set Precedent For Similar Cases
Jan 2nd
The outcome of a lawsuit in which a company is suing a former employee over Twitter followers will most likely hinge on how the list was developed and what value each side places on the followers, according to legal experts.
“This case is another example of the application of relatively old legal rules applied to new technology,” said Bill Nolan, an attorney with Barnes & Thornburg LLP. “It’s the 2011 version of the salesperson taking the Rolodex when he/she leaves the company.”
PhoneDog cleared the first hurdle in the lawsuit earlier last month when a court rejected Noah Kravitz’s request to dismiss the lawsuit. PhoneDog is seeking $340,000 from Kravitz, or about $2.50 for each Twitter user that started following the account @Phonedog_Noah while he was tweeting and writing for the online publication. When ravitz left the company in October 2010 he changed the account’s handle to @noahkravitz and retained the more than 17,000 followers he had amassed while working for PhoneDog.
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Nolan said the case is fact specific, meaning the outcome will be determined by the specific facts of the case and is unlikely to set blanket precedents for similar lawsuits in the future. Nolan expects the case to be decided on whether the employee or the employer invested more time in creating the list and whether the list contains valuable, proprietary information that will not be easily recreated.
“If a team from the company sat in a conference room and designed a strategy under which the now-departed employee would tweet on topics to the benefit of the company, that’s a very different story than if the employee on his initiative started using Twitter to boost his job performance,” Nolan said.
The case is being closely watched by companies that have employees use social media as part of their job function, as well as employees who may want to retain control of a Twitter account after leaving a firm. But since the case is fact specific, it ultimately may hold little bearing on similar disputes.
“The takeaway for employers and employees alike is to have clarity on these subjects up front. Employers seeking to protect lists of Twitter followers developed by employees in the course of employment should have policies and agreements saying so,” Nolan said. “Employees seeking to use these lists after they leave employment should consult with counsel to ensure that they proceed without subjecting themselves to undue legal risk.”
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Judge Throws Out Class Action Lawsuit Against Yelp
Oct 26th
Yelp is off the hook, again. A judge has thrown out a class action lawsuit filed against Yelp that alleged the company tried to extort small businesses by promising to remove negative reviews in exchange for money. As we reported when the suit was first filed in February 2010, the plaintiffs…
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Twitter Settles Lawsuit, Gets “Tweet” Trademark
Oct 11th
Twitter and Twittad have settled their dispute over the word “tweet,” though Twittad will retain the right to use the tagline, “Let your ad meet tweets.”
Twitter has been trying to trademark “tweet” since Apri…
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Google Books Lawsuit: Trial Proceedings Move Ahead, While Negotiations Continue
Sep 15th
The lawsuit over Google Books is back on track for trial, but purposely with enough time to allow the parties involved to keep negotiating a settlement. In a New York City courtroom today, Judge Denny Chin heard from Google, the Authors Guild and the American Association Of Publishers about…
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SEO Legal Services weighs in on big anti-foreclosure lawsuit – Athens NEWS
Sep 6th
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SEO Legal Services weighs in on big anti-foreclosure lawsuit
Athens NEWS An attorney with a local legal aid agency has signed onto a "friend of the court" brief filed with the Ohio Supreme Court in a case that could have a big impact on home foreclosures in the state. The brief, in US Bank National … |
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Lawsuit Accuses comScore of Major Privacy Violations
Aug 28th
A lawsuit filed on August 23 accuses comScore of recording private consumer information (including social security numbers and payment data), manipulating computer security settings without authorization, and embedding their software in other appl…
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