Facebook's Aim Is Dangerous, Digital Privacy Group Says

[The Straight Story]

Facebook's Aim Is Dangerous, Digital Privacy Group Says

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to digital civil liberties, urged a federal judge to dismiss fraud claims against a web developer, saying the allegations are part of Facebook's "dangerous" plan to profit from users' information.

Power Ventures, which creates applications for social-networking sites, is fighting to dismiss certain claims from a lawsuit filed by Facebook in 2009, alleging violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and California penal codes.
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In a friend of the court brief filed Tuesday, Electronic Frontier Foundation says that Facebook targeted Power because it cannot profit off it. Facebook allegedly wanted Power Ventures to use the Facebook interface, "apparently ... [to] have more control over how stored data was accessed and manipulated," according to EFF.

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Facebook responded by blocking the IP address Power had used to access Facebook.

Its lawsuit takes issue with Power's alleged workaround. Anticipating that Facebook would prevent members from using the Power interface to access their Facebook accounts, Power allegedly designed its service to rotate IP addresses. Facebook says this circumvention violated the law.

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[HopeHoops]

2. I'm more upset with their TOS that claims copyright to EVERYTHING you post.

By using Facebook, even if you are hell-bent on keeping the copyright on a picture, if you upload it they claim ownership - to do with as they please. I don't know about any of you, but MY lawyers wouldn't take on a company with (for all intents and purposes) unlimited resources.

They also want to claim they own both "face" and "book", to the point where a domain called "Books_I_Love.com" would be in violation just for using the word "book" and "Faces_of_The_Past.com" would be in violation for the same reason. This is just NOT the way to go and while I rarely use Facebook, I'm getting more and more to the point where I just have no interest in it. I log in maybe once every three months to see if old friends have contacted me. I have an uncommon avatar - the default anonymous guy head.