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ACLU Weighs in on Facebooks Privacy Issues
According to news reports, Facebook has called an “all hands” meeting today to discuss its privacy policies. That’s because they are facing a brewing revolt among Facebook users alarmed by the company’s cavalier attitude toward protecting your privacy...

Trademarks That FaceBook Owns Or Has Filed For Including The Following:
Facebook owns registrations in the US for: FACEBOOK It used to own one for THEFACEBOOK but amended it to FACEBOOK. It has applications for: POKE 32665 (Facebook's text message shortcode) FBOOK THE WALL F (stylized) FACEBOOK INSIGHTS FANSUMER FACEBOOK PAGES FACEBOOK BEACON FACEBOOK ADS BEACON SOCIALADS SOCIAL ADS

Do You Want CC In Facebook
Yesterday, we posted about Facebook’s recent Terms of Service ordeal and how it demonstrates the need for human readable legal deeds. Now, Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, is asking the Facebook community for feedback on a Facebook Bill of Rights...

J.D. Supra, Facebook …. and the Word
Bob Ambrogi: The document-sharing site JD Supra is launching an application for Facebook today that lets its members stream their documents and professional profile information into their Facebook profiles...

The Sky is Falling! New Facebook Usernames Will be the End of Trademark Protection as We Know It
In just over six hours, Facebook will begin permitting its users to obtain "vanity" URLs for their Facebook profiles. According to the popular social networking site, "The one place [on Facebook] where your identity wasn't reflected was in the Web address for your profile or the Facebook Pages you administer...

More privacy for Facebook
TechCrunch reports that Facebook is about to introduce its long anticipated privacy controls for groups of friends: Facebook announced new privacy controls at a press event at their downtown Palo Alto headquarters today, and also demoed their new chat application - called Facebook Chat - that has been rumored since...

Now I know what to call them: "Facebook refusenicks"
A few of my friends stubbornly refuse to join Facebook, and I'd always put it down to their own peculiar eccentricities or some need to be contrary, but according to Times Online, they can now claim that they are part of an anti-Facebook movement called "Facebook refusenicks": Facebook dominated media...

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Facebook / Blockbuster
alleging that Facebook distributed your Blockbuster movie rental information without your knowledge or consent.

Settlement Proposed in Class Action Against Facebook
Facebook will Close Beacon in Proposed Settlement

Facebook
Downloading Games Linked to Possible Identity Theft

Facebook
Wins $873 Million Settlement