Woman Seeks Class Action Suit Against Facebook for Allegedly Violating Wiretap Law
Woman Seeks Class Action Suit Against Facebook for Allegedly Violating Wiretap Law
Posted 10/17/2011 at 7:51am
| by Paul Lilly
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Brooke Rutledge of Lafayett County, Mississippi, is taking Facebook to task over claims the social networking site is illegally tracking user behavior, even when they're not logged into the site. At the heart of the issue is a discovery by Australian blogger Nik Cubrilovic that appears to show Facebook has the ability to track users across the Web on any page with a "Like" button or other Facebook integration.
According to the U.K.'s The Register, Rutledge's complaint is seeking class-action status, a move that would potentially allow millions of others users to join in.
The 17-page complaint alleges that "Leading up to September 23, 2011, Facebook tracked, collected, and stored its users' wire or electronic communications, including but not limited to portions of their Internet browsing history even when the users were not logged-in to Facebook." Facebook's privacy policy does state that if you visit a website with a Like plugin or other social plugin, your browser will send a limited set of information, but not your User ID if you're logged out of Facebook.
Cubrilovic claims otherwise and says that Facebook cookies that remain on the hard drive are embedded with unique identifiers and sent back to the social networking site.
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tekknyne
October 17, 2011 at 9:26am
This article reminds me of a quote: "If you are not paying for a service, you are not the customer".
I wonder why the world's elite are so quick to throw billions at Facebook. Is it for their continued benefit or for yours? I wonder how they'll put all that information to use. To develope new and innovating solutions to help solve global problems? Or is Farmville all they have to offer?
You ever do any research to see how Chocolate is made? Slave children in Africa harvest the coco beans. The reason I bring this up is that companies like FB, Nestle etc compete in a global market, but there is nobody governing them. They're just free to exploint different regions as they see fit.
Silencer
October 25, 2011 at 2:45pm
Unfortunately, a centralized world government would only lead to tyranny, as men are sinners and evil. Best we can hope for in this dispensation, is for other nations to rule themselves in fashions similar to our own, and to help them to do that. (Including protecting their people.) Also, King Jesus will be here soon. (I'm serious, I'm not trying to spark anything here.) Surely the Antichrist will have a one-world government soon enough, as the Bible states. New Facebook 'AC Edition' lol!
Holly Golightly
October 17, 2011 at 10:18pm
...And this where capitalism becomes a broken regime. Billionaires do not care about our inalienable rights. They will continue to track us in every way possible. Capitalism encourages fragmentation because, well... Let's face it, the corporations run the government with the almighty dollar. Money is the root of all evil. Advertisers want to know what you do, and they will pay social networks to spill out our very private life for a few dollars and cents. Money is the root of all evil. It is how slavery began, and it is how Nazi Germany ran. Until some change occurs, the multinational corporations will be untouchable. Of course, we have to do away with capitalism in the first place. We need a revolution.
Silencer
October 25, 2011 at 2:43pm
Change your B to an M, and: Don't tell me that I don't care about something, that I care about, please. WTF do you know.
Holly Golightly
October 25, 2011 at 9:37pm
Umm, nobody cares about the millionaires. Today's big rich people are billionaires. Michael Bloomberg, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Dell, Steve Balmer, Bill Gates, and the Walton family... Those Billionaires. So no, I am not going to change the B to an M... It seems you do not know sh*t about top income earners.
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