Classmates.com’s Facebook Mimicking Prompts Privacy Suit

March 10th, 2010 admin

The site set up to locate long lost pals, Classmates.com, has been hit with a class action privacy lawsuit. It alleges the company violated the law when it decided to make user profiles public to compete with Facebook. The suit says Classmates.com duped its paying customers in late January when it sent them an e-mail telling members they’d have to opt out of new Facebook and iPhone apps to keep their data private. That’s a massive change to the…


Originally posted on Wired

 
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GoKatsura2016 (Ken Katsura)  : All my Classmates.com supporters are in their early to mid 50s & 40 somethings. All are native born Californians attending CA high schools...
Updated : 2010-07-30T21:22:27Z   |  Reply  |  View Tweet
Gabe_da_Poet (Gabriel Israel Green)  : @BrittSimps WOW this is too awesome, Twitter is the new Classmates.com LOL!!! How you been, you look great...
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NewcomerstownOH (Michael Wise)  : > The Newcoseans for 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955 and 1965 are online at www.classmates.com. However there is a... http://fb.me/CVICrmlV..
Updated : 2010-07-30T16:33:56Z   |  Reply  |  View Tweet
ryanm71 (Ryan T. Merritt)  : How can classmates.com still exist when everyone finds everybody on facebook?..
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frankmiranda (Frank Miranda)  : I keep Getting Spam Emails from Classmates.com. WHY DON'T PEOPLE JUST HIT ME UP VIA MYSPACE, FB, TWIZZER, AND EVERY OTHER SITE!! ahah..
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