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05-18-2012, 05:11 PM
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Facebook Sued for $15 Billion for Illegally Tracking Users
Facebook is having a great day today! Their company went public, raising $16 Billion from the IPO today.
However in another move, Facebook users filed a $15 Billion lawsuit against the company claiming that Facebook tracks users browsing even after they have logged out of the site.
This lawsuit combines 21 different suits against Facebook.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-0...-tracking.html
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05-21-2012, 06:50 AM
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Daang...
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05-21-2012, 10:05 AM
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An Awesome Dude
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Originally Posted by Skip
However in another move, Facebook users filed a $15 Billion lawsuit against the company claiming that Facebook tracks users browsing even after they have logged out of the site.
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Its amazing isnt it Skip?
The sheep are starting to wake up! |
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05-22-2012, 02:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Pink_Panther
Surely every site tracks users? I thought they did - just delete your cookies and stuff when you logout of it.
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Facebook tracks people across sites -- everywhere you see their "Like" button, your browser has hit their server(s) to retrieve it. They're not unique in this; Google is another very well known example, via their advertising and "+1" button.
If you delete only HTTP cookies, you're still being tracked.
A pretty good rule of thumb: If you're not paying for the online product (and often when you are), you are the product. |
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05-22-2012, 09:03 AM
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An Awesome Dude
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Indeed you are!!!!!
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05-23-2012, 05:40 AM
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ABOUT TIME!
And Mark Zuckerberg deserves all the criticism that gets thrown at him. I'm not someone who likes to judge, but I can't see him as anything other than a spoiled sell-out. He'll regret it one day....
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05-23-2012, 01:34 PM
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Originally Posted by MayQueen~420~
^I agree, even though I have an Assface page. I could really give a shit less if something were to happen to it.
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Yeah it is a love/hate relationship and just as I learned with MySpace - you can walk away from it. In fact, I never liked FB at first but when MS self-destructed (by making 'improvements' that no one wanted and that slowed my computer down to dialup speed) all my cyberfriends went to FB where I have been hanging out. MS is just a ghost site now. I don't even know if anyone works there anymore.
Then the FB bastard techies started changing things just like they did at MS and there was a lot of complaints. I think they slowed that shit down but my computer frequently freezes up while I am in foto albums. (maybe they will lay off the techies and it can float without change for a while). |
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05-23-2012, 03:27 PM
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Sucking on a dummy placebo of imaginary friendship
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And don't forget these AKA's I've conjured up: ForceBook, FarceBook, FartBook... Anyhoo, when I finally decided to get off FB(i), I requested a download of everything I'd posted. (It's key to add here that I religiously deleted all my posts every few months.) But guess what? It was still all there! ...the whole 9 yarons; the entire 18 months of loneliness, during which I was caught in a social vacuum sucking on a dummy placebo of imaginary friendship. What really bites is when you have lived a while as an idea person & you realize you are spitting out some of your best epiphanies into the public domain. Remember when writers had something called 'writers' block'? Well, no no more, he-haw! I realized when I was doing my thing on Venice Beach why 85% of Santa Monica (down the beach) as listed as being Artists. They are journalists & TV & Hollywood Script Writers & that is their free 'think tank', so when they need an idea, they just stroll down the beach & steal one... I can't do the subject justice. Privacy is Dead. FaceBook killed it.
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05-23-2012, 04:22 PM
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almost yet not
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Originally Posted by skycanvas
Privacy is Dead. FaceBook killed it.
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Nope. The users did. |
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05-24-2012, 03:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Jimmy P
I wonder if there is a Facebook group for people who want to join in on the lawsuit?
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hahahah See how long it before they take that down!! Just looking at that guy.....I dont trust him |
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05-24-2012, 09:03 PM
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Does anyone remember the video clip where Mark Z was asked about those who aren't on Facebook and he replied, "Oh, they'll join soon enough", then gave an evil laugh with a smirk on his face. :lol:
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