Consumer Law

Are You Featured In Facebook Ads Opt Out Today!
Thanks to a friend's post on Facebook, I've just learned that Facebook now has a default feature that allows Facebook advertisers to use your news feed and wall to sell their products...

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...

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...

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...

Facebook extends platform
All Facebook, an unofficial Facebook blog, comments on a significant but under-reported development: I surely did not see this coming anytime soon but Facebook just released their JavaScript client library than enables developers to extend their applications to their own websites...

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