Troubled MySpace Hit By Privacy Lawsuit
Talk about knocking something while it is down. MySpace, the once pioneering social network site turned faltering ‘social entertainment’ destination, now finds itself embroiled in a lawsuit, accused of releasing members’ information without their consent.
Talk about knocking something while it is down. MySpace, the once pioneering social network site turned faltering ‘social entertainment’ destination, now finds itself embroiled in a lawsuit, accused of releasing users’ information without their consent.
Bloomberg reports the News Corp.-owned site stands accused in the lawsuit of giving to aggregators data that connects MySpace users’ names with their Internet browsing histories.
“Myspace knowingly serves as and profits handsomely from being a conduit through which details of the most intimate aspects of its members’ lives, as reflected in their Internet browsing history and otherwise, are transmitted to data aggregators, who package the information into profiles and sell it like any other commodity to advertisers,” the complaint says.
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