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Facebook faces UK probe
2014-07-02 03:24:48| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A UK regulator is investigating whether Facebook broke data protection laws when it conducted a psychological study on users without their consent.
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Facebook faces lawsuit for allegedly scanning private messages
2014-01-03 13:21:35| InfoWorld: Top News
Facebook has been accused of intercepting private messages of its users to provide data to marketers, according to a class-action lawsuit filed in a federal court in California. The social networking company scanned plaintiffs' private messages containing URLs (uniform resource locators) and searched the website identified in the URL for "purposes including but not limited to data mining and user profiling," according to the complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
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Facebook faces jury trial over Timeline trademark
2013-04-01 23:17:30| CNET News.com
Timelines Inc. wins a small victory in its trademark infringement suit against the social network. [Read more]
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Facebook Faces Lawsuit Over Like Button
2013-02-12 23:08:15| TechNewsWorld
Rembrandt Social Media is suing Facebook for its use of the Like button, according to the BBC. Rembrandt claims that Facebook's success is owed, at least in part, to patents belonging to Dutch programmer Joannes Jozef Everardus van Der Meer, who died in 2004.
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Teacher faces firing for Facebook photo of duct-taped students
2013-01-23 19:00:49| CNET News.com
An Ohio teacher is fighting for her career over a humorous Facebook photo captioned: "Finally found a way to get them to be quiet!!!" [Read more]
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