Facebook sued for violating federal law by tracking users

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Federal and class-action lawsuits have been filed against Facebook after it emerged that the social network giant is able to track users via cookies even when they are not signed in.

Facebook is being sued by an increasing number of users over allegations that the world's largest social network is in violation of federal wiretapping laws within the United States. The allegations, as reported on ZDNet, suggest that Facebook uses cookies to track users even after they have logged out of the service. Lawsuits have been filed in the American states of Kansas, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Louisiana. The Mississippi lawsuit, which seeks class action lawsuit status, was filed last week by Brooke Rutledge, on behalf of millions of Facebook users. The lawsuit alleges that Facebook has breached its contract with users, trespassing, invasion of privacy, and unjust enrichment.

Former Louisiana Attorney General Richard Ieyoub has also filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Facebook user Janet Seamon. The allegations within the lawsuit were almost identical to those of the lawsuit made in Mississippi. Ieyoub's lawsuit seeks statutory damages, and also unspecified punitive damages. The statutory damages are $100 per day that a class action user's information was wrongfully gained.

Meanwhile, in Kansas, John Graham filed a federal lawsuit. Graham has asked that the federal court decides whether the interception was intentional, and whether the Palo Alto-based social network should be able to continue with the current alleged practices. Graham's lawsuit also seeks $100 per day, or $10,000 per violation of a user's rights. Punitive damages and attorney costs are also requested in his lawsuit, should it be taken onwards to a court.

In Kentucky, David Hoffman has also sent a federal lawsuit against Facebook. He requests that Facebook is unable to access information without users logging in and also that the company cannot disclose any of the already-acquired information to a third party. Again, Hoffman requests the same fees in damages as both Louisiana resident Richard Ieyoub, and Kansas-resident John Graham.

The impact of the lawsuits could be potentially massive, should they be proven correct. Of course, assuming that Facebook is able to avoid any major damages coming from the lawsuits targeted at it, the social network would likely be able to avoid major press condemnation.

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[Ambrocious]

This is a joke. Facebook is a CIA front, of course they are tracking people!

http://www.infowars.com/facebook-google-are-cia-fronts/

http://www.infowars.com/cias-facebook-knows-where-you-go-on-the-web/

http://www.infowars.com/the-cia-and-nsa-want-you-to-be-their-friend-on-facebook/

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Hey, i'm a facebook user! I wanna get some free money too!!! :)

How do I sue facebook exactly now???

Or maybe i should just join Anonymous and get revenge?

[Ambrocious]

Revenge is an uncivilized version of justice.

Kurt Nimmo

Infowars.com

September 26, 2011

Remember when Mark Zuckerberg said you need to get over the fact that there is no privacy on the internet?

He meant it.

Many of you have likely viewed the video below. It documents Facebook’s connection to the CIA.

Many people, however, think the fun of posting on and the interaction of Facebook overshadows the downside, or they merely ignore the negative aspects.

Well, it turns out it is worse than we previously thought.

Hacker and writer Nik Cubrilovic has a post on his blog today revealing some really scary and downright police state Stasi-like aspects of the popular “service” that doubles as a data-mining operation for the CIA.

Cubrilovic writes that Facebook keeps track of every website destination you visit, even if YOU ARE LOGGED OUT OF FACEBOOK. It does this through the cookies it routinely plants on your computer.

This is somewhat of an overstatement. In fact, Facebook is only able to do this on pages that have its “Like” button on it, which is to say a lot of webpages, although hardly all.

The only solution to this is to delete Facebook’s cookies after every session, or use a separate browser for Facebook usage.

Cubrilovic explains: “With my browser logged out of Facebook, whenever I visit any page with a Facebook like button, or share button, or any other widget, the information, including my account ID, is still being sent to Facebook. The only solution to Facebook not knowing who you are is to delete all Facebook cookies… It is all hidden in plain sight.”

Cubrilovic tried to email Facebook about his concerns on several occasions, but they ignored him.

For most people, this is probably not much of a concern, but for people who are political “radicals” – and anybody who holds political views outside those deemed acceptable by the establishment are indeed considered radicals – this is a serious issue.

Again, Facebook is connected to the CIA and the DIA. It is common knowledge, so much so it is now the subject of satire.

Facebook’s op compliments the NSA effort to “vaccum” up countless petabytes of personal data of citizens, described as “the largest database ever assembled in the world.” It is an integral part of what we call the “surveillance grid” here on Infowars.com.

What about Google+, Facebook’s competition? Same thing. Google+ has something called “Web History,” billed as a service to “search across the full text of the pages you’ve visited, including Google searches, web pages, images, videos and news stories,” according to Google.

Google says you can disable this “feature,” but don’t believe them. Google, like Facebook, is in bed with the CIA. In fact, Google’s search technology is preferred by spook and snoop agencies, including the NSA.

If you want to minimize your exposure to the grid, it may be time to say good-bye to Facebook and Google+, especially if you are politically active.

Start by deactivating your Facebook and Google+ accounts and deleting their cookies on your computer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMWz3G_gPhU

SOURCE: Infowars