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Judge refuses to dismiss lawsuit against Facebook

Original post made on Jan 7, 2015

Facebook failed to demonstrate that scanning private user messages sent using the social media website qualifies as an "ordinary course of business practice" that would be exempt from wiretap laws, according to a federal court judge.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, January 7, 2015, 11:51 AM

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Posted by pearl
a resident of another community
on Jan 7, 2015 at 2:05 pm

pearl is a registered user.

Hasn't it been alleged that Google and Yahoo! also scan user messages for the same purpose? Or, is it just a happy coincidence that Yahoo! labels certain of my email messages, both sent and received, as "People" and "Shopping"? Is someone going to go after Google and Yahoo!, as well? I sure hope so.


Posted by Memories
a resident of another community
on Jan 7, 2015 at 7:56 pm

Pearl - Mozilla has dumped Google as their search engine, citing violation of user privacy. Apparently they believe that Yahoo is better, and that's their new search engine.

I hope that Marky Mark and his Funky Bunch get the thumbscrews for this!


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