Facebook avoids text messaging case
p2pnet news | Advertising:- Facebook says it’ll try to prevent members from sending text messages to recycled cell phone numbers.
Lindsey Abrams said Facebook, “profited from its members sending thousands of unauthorized text messages to mobile phone users whose numbers previously belonged to other people”.
A lawsuit filed by her, “said she received text messages with explicit comments and other upsetting content – and had to pay 10 cents each time,” says Associated Press.
Facebook was paid some of the fee, according to the complaint, it says.
“According to the complaint, which Abrams’s lawyers had hoped would be certified as a class action, Abrams started getting the unsolicited messages shortly after she got a new mobile number from Verizon Communications Inc. in November 2006,” says AP, going on, “Her suit alleged thousands of other unauthorized text messages had been sent nationwide to other recycled phone numbers, including some used by young children.”
Facebook will pay Abrams’ legal costs, the amount to be determined next year.
Also See:
unauthorized text messages – Facebook sued over cellphone calls, October 23, 2007
Associated Press – Facebook Settles Text-Messaging Suit, December 18, 2007
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