Classmates.com’s Facebook Mimicking Prompts Privacy Suit

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…
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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 |
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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... Updated : 2010-07-30T19:42:59Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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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 |
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ryanm71 (Ryan T. Merritt) : How can classmates.com still exist when everyone finds everybody on facebook?.. Updated : 2010-07-30T14:52:37Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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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.. Updated : 2010-07-30T04:09:59Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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Classmates.com Agrees to $9.5 Million False Ad Settlement
[Business & Finance]Classmates.com — the website that promises to reunite people with their mullet-haired friends of youth — has agreed to pay out a $9.5 million settlement for a lawsuit dating back to 2008 accusing the company of “false advertising” through “deceptive” marketing emails.
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Classmates.com Employees Won't Tell CEO About Facebook
[Comedy]Employees at Classmates.com—an online service that enables users to find and communicate with people from their past for a monthly fee—have done everything in their power to keep the company's CEO from finding out about the wildly popular social networking site Facebook.
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Digg hates Classmates.com........
[Comedy]Epic phail?
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5 Reasons I Hope Classmates.com Gets Sued Into Oblivion
[Tech Industry News]It's time for Classmates.com to change or close up shop. A lawsuit against the company might just prompt some movement.
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Your school chum's not asking about you: Classmates.com sued
[Tech Industry News]No, your old high school buddies really weren't trying to contact you. Classmates.com has become the subject of a class-action lawsuit thanks to e-mails sent to members claiming that their old classmates had been trying to contact them. The e-mails turned out to be a trick to get people to subscribe, and some are getting fed up.





























