TOM HENEGHAN EXPLOSIVE
INTELLIGENCE BRIEFINGS
ALL patriot Americans MUST know, with sources inside
American/European intelligence agencies and INTERPOL
reporting what is really going on behind the scenes of the
corporate-controlled, fascist, extortion-friendly
propaganda U.S. media's massive deceptions
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January 1, 2015
FACEBOOK FINGERED
by Tom Heneghan,
International Intelligence Expert
UNITED States of
America -
10 ways Facebook spies
on you
Facebook tampers with
our newsfeeds, analyzes our statuses and accesses our private messages to
collect our data. They even monitor what we're watching and listening to.
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Facebook wants to
'listen' to your music and TV
However, some users have
privacy concerns.
The feature, which will
be available in a few weeks' time, uses the microphones inside users' smartphones to detect nearby
music or TV shows.
Facebook Spies on You
For The Government
Will allow third parties
like the CIA, FBI, NSA etc. to collect information from your computer, phone
and other devices where you can use Facebook
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Judge says Facebook must
face class action lawsuit over message scanning
Published time: December
26, 2014 16:54
Edited time: December
27, 2014 10:33
Facebook must face a
class action lawsuit filed in California claiming the social networking site
sifted through users’ private messages for targeted advertising purposes,
violating both federal and state law.
Lead plaintiff Matthew
Campbell and two others sued Facebook in December 2013, alleging the company
scanned user messages for web links, translating them to “likes” on the user’s
Facebook profile. Data lifted from the private messages was then used for
targeted advertising, the plaintiffs claimed.
"Facebook's
practice of scanning the content of these messages violates the federal
Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA also referred to as the Wiretap
Act), as well as California's Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), and section 17200
of California's Business and Professions Code," the plaintiffs said.
On Tuesday, US District
Judge Phyllis Hamilton denied Facebook’s motion to dismiss the ECPA and CIPA
section 631 claims, while granting dismissal of claims pertaining to section
632 of the CIPA and section 17200 of the California Business & Professions
Code, according to Tech Times.
Facebook "has not
offered a sufficient explanation of how the challenged practice falls within
the ordinary course of its business," Judge Hamilton said.
The court said
Facebook’s terms of service is too vague to surmise whether users ultimately
consented to the company’s scan of their private messages for advertising uses.
Plaintiffs said they
have a reasonable expectation of privacy within their user-to-user messaging.
Though it said it
stopped the practice in question in late 2012, Facebook said in an October
motion hearing, according to Courthouse News, that it has the right to analyze
user messages, as it still does to some degree protect against viruses and
helps filter out spam.
"The fact that
Facebook can configure its code to scan message content for certain purposes,
but not for others, leaves open the possibility that the challenged practice
constitutes a separate 'interception,’” Judge Hamilton wrote on Tuesday.
"Facebook moves to
strike plaintiffs' request for injunctive relief, arguing that it ceased the
challenged practice 'nearly two years ago,'" Hamilton wrote.
"However, plaintiffs have adequately alleged that there is a 'sufficient
likelihood' that Facebook could resume the practice, so the court denies
Facebook's request to strike the injunctive relief at this time.”
Neither Facebook nor
attorneys for the plaintiffs responded to Reuters’ immediate request for
comment.
In addition to Facebook,
Yahoo! and Earthlink have faced similar lawsuits. Google’s Gmail is currently
appealing accusations that it violated the Wiretap Act as it scanned Gmail messages
for targeted-ad purposes.
Meanwhile, in Europe,
Facebook is fighting off a class action lawsuit filed in August, which claims
Facebook violated users' privacy by cooperating with the National Security
Agency's PRISM surveillance program.
WISHING YOU A NEW YEAR OF HAPPINESS
A RETURN TO U.S. CONSTITUTION PROTECTED
RIGHTS, FREEDOMS, PRIVACY
AND ‘RULE OF LAW’
As we live free or die, Lafayette remains at Brandywine and
Albert Gore Jr. remains the year 2000 DULY ELECTED,
natural born non-inaugurated,
REAL President of the United States.
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