Facebook Sends Cease And Desist To Friend-Seller

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Published Nov 20 2009 by WebProNews Feed

Facebook Sends Cease And Desist To Friend-Seller

uSocial is a controversial advertising company that specializes in social media. For a fee, it promises to get stories on the front page of Digg, direct followers to a Twitter account, and/or find someone Facebook fans (among other things). But Facebook's put at least a temporary...

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...this afternoon, "Facebook sent Cease and Desist letters to USocial claiming that the way the marketing firm operates violates its rights by sending spam, using web tools to harvest pages, getting login names and by accessing accounts that did not belong to the marketing firm." As a result, "USocial...

Facebook Sends Cease And Desist To Friend-Seller [WebProNews Feed - Nov 20 2009]

..." As a result, "USocial defended itself against Facebook's claims, saying that it did not spam users or use web tools to gather information about profiles. . . . However, in response to the legal letters, USocial said it would delete the login information it had collected and broadly stop offering to sell Facebook friends." This is an...

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