Posts Tagged ‘Legal’

Status updates about same-sex marriage in California have been going up about once every ten seconds on Facebook.

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Netflix is streaming video on Facebook in 47 countries, but the U.S. still isn’t one of them. We blame the Senate.

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As Paul Ceglia’s attempt to claim half of Facebook continues to rapidly crumble, his financial obligations may rise just as quickly: The social network’s lawyers are going after Ceglia for more than $84,000 in legal fees.

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The trademark suit filed by Timelines.com against Facebook, and the countersuit by the social network, are scheduled to go to trial sometime in 2013, but the two sides are still talking.

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Facebook elected not to go dark to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act, but the company’s Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg posted a status update about SOPA, garnering 7,182 likes as of this posting.

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The issue of Facebook using its members’ likenesses in advertising returned to center stage with a ruling by a court in California that a class-action suit against the social network can proceed.

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Facebook has turned down an invitation to appear at a December 14 congressional briefing on teen privacy, where the company were asked to discuss the company’s recent settlement with the Federal Trade Commission.

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Yesterday’s first-ever Congressional Facebook hackathon explored how to improve communications with constituents and dissemination of legislative data.

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A patent-infringement lawsuit ended up leading to an acquisition, as relationship-management-software developer WhoGlue announced that it was acquired by Facebook.

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Are you curious to know more about how law enforcement agencies use Facebook? If so, then read this post.

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