Posted on 01/03/2014 2:45:22 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
Summary: A class-action suit claims that the social networking site monitors and uses your messages for advertising purposes.
The class-action lawsuit, submitted by Arkansas lawyer Matt Campbell and Michael Hurley from Oregon on Monday at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, says that the social networking giant monitors users' private messages in order to compile and mine data which can be used to profile web activity. This data can then allegedly be used for profit through sales to marketers and advertisers --who then can target ads based on the user's online behavior.
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Where in that text does it indicate they will look at private messages?
I shut down my fb more than a year ago, so for me it is a non-issue.
I believe in a court, a reasonable person would presume the company is within its rights to gear advertising toward public displays, but private messages ought to remain private.
This would be akin to the Postal Service opening your mail to help bulk mailers determine what kind of junk advertising to send you.
Your private messages are also monitored here on FR.
You must deliberately LOG OUT of Facebook before other net surfing or else they have been collecting data about your net surfing habits the whole time your account was open —for many that is weeks or months.
The CEO betrayed his college buddy, biz partners and for tax reasons married his wife literally the day after FB went public:
What would he do to YOU, then?
>> Your private messages are also monitored here on FR.
That’s why I never ever write anything here (public or private) that I wouldn’t want my mother (may GOD rest her soul) to read.
Well, okay, I *seldom* write...
Well, okay, *some*... er, make that *a few* messages would be OK for Mom to see.
But hey, at least Jim and the admin mods don’t try to sell me anything with my FReepmails and posts.
No internet message carries a guarantee of privacy.
What they are saying is that anything you do on fb they can use. That includes private messages, I suppose.
I’m with you...I closed my account and just don’t bother. The wife has one for family doings but she is constantly re-working her privacy settings. She posts NO personal info and has faked what she does supply.
Never have understood these folks with so much trust as to use their real personal info on such an intrusive site.
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