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• Teacher Fired Over Facebook Profile

  
  ReputationDefender Blog — Authority: 497
  A former Georgia high school teacher is suing the school district that fired her after finding what they deemed to be inappropriate pictures and language on her Facebook profile. From CBS Atlanta : “A former high school teacher is suing a north Georgia school district, alleging she was forced to resign over ...
  2 days ago

• Facebook Provides Accused Criminal With An Alibi

  
  Below The Beltway — Authority: 691
  Sometimes sharing the minutiae of your life with the world, can have unexpected benefits: The message on Rodney Bradford’s Facebook page, posted at 11:49 a.m. on Oct. 17, asked where his pancakes were. The words were typed from a computer in his father’s apartment in Harlem. At the time, the sentence, written ...
  3 days ago

• Facebook status about pancakes used as alibi

  
  Icrontic — Authority: 439
  Proliferation of the Facebook Defense in 3, 2, 1...
  3 days ago

• New Facebook Koobface Variant Detected by Trend Micro

  
  Inside Facebook — Authority: 660
  Security firm Trend Micro has just published details on a new variant of the Koobface worm that spread on Facebook earlier this year, this time more specifically designed to imitate the behavior of Facebook users. It’s a slightly more sophisticated approach than some of the previous attacks we’ve seen. According ...
  4 days ago

• Facebook Wins Big Anti-Spam Judgment

  
  Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing — Authority: 740
  Facebook has been in an ongoing fight against spam and yesterday announced a significant victory in court. The company said it had obtained an eye-popping $711 million judgment against Spam King Sanford Wallace who had had posted unwanted messages on Facebook users’ Walls. Wallace, who is reportedly bankrupt may ...
  2 weeks ago

• Facebook Awarded $711 Million In Spam Case

  
  WebProNews Feed — Authority: 696
  Spammers may want to steer clear of Facebook in the future.  Late yesterday, a representative of the social networks legal team announced that it was awarded $711 million in damages as a result of a case against Sanford "Spamford" Wallace. As Sam ORourke explained on the Facebook Blog , Wallace is "one of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Judge Awards Facebook $711 Million in Damages in Spam King Case

  
  Inside Facebook — Authority: 660
  Earlier this year, we first covered the news that Facebook had filed a federal lawsuit against famed “Spam King” Sanford Wallace for crimes under the CAN-SPAM Act, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and the California Anti-Phishing Act. Today, Facebook says the company won the case and was awarded $711 million in ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Facebook Privacy Policy Draft Now Open for Feedback

  
  Inside Facebook — Authority: 660
  As it did with changes around its at-one-time controversial terms of service earlier this year, Facebook is making a new draft of its privacy policies available for public comment. You can view it here ; comments can be left on the Facebook Site Governance page. Part of the intent with this draft is to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Facebook settlement: Kill Beacon, pay $9.5 million into fund to promote online privacy

  
  Between the Lines — Authority: 688
  A class action suit over Facebook’s controversial Beacon program today received preliminary approval (PDF) by a U.S. District Court, bringing an end to the Beacon service and giving the company an option of clearing the matter without long - and expensive - court proceedings.The proposal calls for Facebook to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Power.com Suit Against Facebook Tossed

  
  WebProNews Feed — Authority: 696
  Facebook appears to have won at least part of yet another legal fight.  Yesterday, United States District Judge Jeremy Fogel dismissed a complaint that Power.com brought against the social networking company in early July. Facebook actually sued Power.com way back in January, alleging that Power.com had collected ...
  3 weeks ago

• Judge Dismisses Power.com’s Data-Sharing Lawsuit Against Facebook

  
  Inside Facebook — Authority: 660
  Last year, social network aggregator Power.com introduced a service that “that solicits, stores and uses Facebook login information to access information stored on Facebook computers without authorization and to display Facebook copyrighted material without permission.” Or so Facebook described Power.com’s ...
  3 weeks ago

• Teachers Beware: Facebook Usage is Dangerous

  
  The Changing Face of Education in Iowa — Authority: 117
  Or so says Justin Bathon at the Edjurist, on multiple occasions . Actually, Justin has many valid points. Ive had several discussions with administrators this year alone who have mentioned younger teachers are sometimes unaware of the dangers of Facebook, namely that it is open, easily traceable, and permanent. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Google, Facebook and Twitter Address Net Neutrality

  
  WebProNews Feed — Authority: 696
  The Open Internet Coalition , which is a group of consumers, grassroots organizations, and businesses "promoting consumer choice and economic growth through an open Internet," has sent an open letter to FCC chairman Julius Genachowski, supporting open Internet rules. The coalition itself includes a large list of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Australian Court Says Tweeting From Court Can Be A Good Thing

  
  The-Informer — Authority: 157
  We’ve written a few times about the legal battle in Australia between ISP iiNet and anti-piracy group AFACT. The actual trial’s been going on — and we haven’t written much about the day-to-day, figuring we’ll wait until there’s a verdict. However, Jason sent over an interesting side note. Some had ...
  4 weeks ago

• Note to fugitives: Posting on Facebook is probably a bad idea

  
  Icrontic — Authority: 439
  Hanging out on the beaches by day, hitting the clubs by night, Maxi Sopo was living the life in Cancún. He regularly proclaimed on his Facebook that he was happy and having a great time. That would all be well and good for an ordinary American visiting Cancun on vacation, but Maxi Sopo was actually [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Facebook wins privacy battle with Virginia

  
  Reading Tea Leaves by Randy Wilson — Authority: 131
  Virginia’s Workers Compensation Commissioner was fining the social networking giant $200 a day for failing to comply with a subpoena to turn over information about a user making a workers compensation  claim.  However, when Facebook claimed that the Electronic Communications Privacy Act prohibited services such as ...
  8 weeks ago

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