Farmville dev Zynga sued for privacy breach

[gumgod]

Facebook's top game developer has been hit with a class action lawsuit over allegations that it shared the personal information of millions of Americans with internet tracking companies.

Zynga, which makes six of the social network's top ten games, including the massively popular FarmVille, is accused of sharing the data of 218 million users with advertisers, in violation of federal law and its contract with Facebook.

The lawsuit was filed in a federal court in San Francisco, California, and was brought by Minnesota resident Nancy Graf. The class action is seeking monetary relief for those whose data was wrongly shared, and injunctive relief to prevent continued privacy abuses.

"This appears to be another example of an online company failing the American public with empty promises to respect individual privacy rights," said Michael Aschenbrener of Edelson McGuire LLC, co-lead attorney for the class action.

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[Maz7006]

i knew there was something fishy about that farm

 

[ProtoKun7]

Heard the story about the data yesterday; it doesn't affect me at all.

Stories about this happening a lot amuses me though; can't Failbook just get deleted from the internet and we can all leave this behind us?

 

[Bladexdsl]

over allegations that it shared the personal information of millions of Americans with internet tracking companies

um that's pretty much what the whole of facebook does anyway

 

[Ethevion]

What are the consequences that they face? Hopefully something to shut down Zynga.

 

[purechaos996]

social networking has ruined the internet.

 

[Range-TE]

never cared much for facebook games really

i knew there was something fishy about that farm

i'm guessing it's a fish farm?

 

[megawalk]

never had facebook, never trusted it. now i will never get it

 

[craplame]

I thought the point of Facebook was to have your personal information on it. Why the hell would you want to play Farmville?

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

Awesome. Now those kiddies can finally fuck off and start using Netlog/shit like that again, and leave Facebook to the (slightly) more mature.

can't Failbook just get deleted from the internet and we can all leave this behind us?

TROLOLOLOLO LOLOLO LOLOLO~

 

[Inunah]

So is Zynga not on Facebook anymore? My mom'll be sad. She plays Cafe World, which is by the same people.

 

[Inunah]

can't Failbook just get deleted from the internet and we can all leave this behind us?

TROLOLOLOLO LOLOLO LOLOLO~

LOL yeah. But if Failbook's/Facebook's deleted, then we won't have anything funny to look at on Failbook.

 

[ProtoKun7]

Haha, that's just my nickname for it.

It might even be better if just none of my friends had it so that everyone that fails would be anonymous to me.

When I first heard this though, I had wondered if the administrators knew about this all too well.

 

[gumgod]

This isn't the first time Facebook has had privacy issues, so it's not really surprising. People need to learn that if you don't want something public, you shouldn't put it on the internet.

 

[Bladexdsl]

I thought the point of Facebook was to have your personal information on it.

and so pedos can stalk your kids they should change it to pedo-book

 

[RupeeClock]

In Facebook America, Farmville farms you!