Facebook 'Lawyers Up' Its Security War Against Scams
Washington State Attorney General Robert McKenna is joining Facebook's legal department in combating a problem that up until now has been fought only with security technology.
The Washington attorney general’s office is joining Facebook’s legal department in combating a problem that up until now has been fought only with security technology.
Facebook and top Washington state government attorneys are joining together to form a “joint legal strategy against a scheme that takes advantage of those using the social media platform.”
GeekWire‘s coverage of the announcement includes a reference to recently squashed scam posts on Facebook promising bogus Amazon.com gift cards.
If this is in fact the motivation for Washington’s attorney general to team up with Facebook, this would mark the first time that Facebook’s legal department has gotten involved in a war that has until now been fought with security technology, otherwise known as the social network’s immune system.
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