aardvark15 |
I got a email from facebook | NOTICE OF PENDING CLASS ACTION AND NOTICE OF PROPOSED SETTLEMENT |
| ANGEL FRALEY V. FACEBOOK, INC. |
| You are receiving this e-mail because you may have been featured in a "Sponsored Story" on Facebook prior to December 3, 2012. |
| A federal court authorized this Notice. This is not a solicitation from a lawyer. |
| Why did I get this notice? This Notice relates to a proposed settlement ("Settlement") of a class action lawsuit ("Action") filed against Facebook relating to a particular Facebook feature called "Sponsored Stories." According to available records, you may be a "Class Member." |
| What is the Action about? The Action claims that Facebook unlawfully used the names, profile pictures, photographs, likenesses, and identities of Facebook users in the United States to advertise or sell products and services through Sponsored Stories without obtaining those users' consent. Facebook denies any wrongdoing and any liability whatsoever. No court or other entity has made any judgment or other determination of any liability. |
| What is a Sponsored Story? Sponsored Stories are a form of advertising that typically contains posts which appeared on facebook.com about or from a Facebook user or entity that a business, organization, or individual has paid to promote so there is a better chance that the posts will be seen by the user or entity's chosen audience. Sponsored Stories may be displayed, for example, when a Facebook user interacts with the Facebook service (including sub-domains, international versions, widgets, plug-ins, platform applications or games, and mobile applications) in certain ways, such as by clicking on the Facebook "Like" button on a business's, organization's, or individual's Facebook page. Sponsored Stories typically include a display of a Facebook user's Facebook name (i.e., the name the user has associated with his or her Facebook account) and/or profile picture (if the user has uploaded one) with a statement describing the user's interaction with the Facebook service, such as "John Smith likes UNICEF," "John Smith played Farmville," or "John Smith shared a link." |
| What relief does the Settlement provide? Facebook will pay $20 million into a fund that can be used, in part, to pay claims of Class Members (including Minor Class Members) who appeared in a Sponsored Story. Each participating Class Member who submits a valid and timely claim form may be eligible to receive up to $10. The amount, if any, paid to each claimant depends upon the number of claims made and other factors detailed in the Settlement. No one knows in advance how much each claimant will receive, or whether any money will be paid directly to claimants. If the number of claims made renders it economically infeasible to pay money to persons who make a timely and valid claim, payment will be made to the not-for-profit organizations identified on the Settlement website at www.fraleyfacebooksettlement.com (if clicking on the link does not work, copy and paste the website address into a web browser). These organizations are involved in educational outreach that teaches adults and children how to use social media technologies safely, or are involved in research of social media, with a focus on critical thinking around advertising and commercialization, and particularly with protecting the interests of children. |
| In addition to monetary relief, Facebook will (a) revise its terms of service (known as the "Statement of Rights and Responsibilities" or "SRR") to more fully explain the instances in which users agree to the display of their names and profile pictures in connection with Sponsored Stories; (b) create an easily accessible mechanism that enables users to view, on a going-forward basis, the subset of their interactions and other content on Facebook that have been displayed in Sponsored Stories (if any); (c) develop settings that will allow users to prevent particular items or categories of content or information related to them from being displayed in future Sponsored Stories; (d) revise its SRR to confirm that minors represent that their parent or legal guardian consents to the use of the minor's name and profile picture in connection with commercial, sponsored, or related content; (e) provide parents and legal guardians with additional information about how advertising works on Facebook in its Family Safety Center and provide parents and legal guardians with additional tools to control whether their children's names and profile pictures are displayed in connection with Sponsored Stories; and (f) add a control in minor users' profiles that enables each minor user to indicate that his or her parents are not Facebook users and, where a minor user indicates that his or her parents are not on Facebook, Facebook will make the minor ineligible to appear in Sponsored Stories until he or she reaches the age of 18, until the minor changes his or her setting to indicate that his or her parents are on Facebook, or until a confirmed parental relationship with the minor user is established. |
Wow just wow |
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CynthiasSocks 
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One of the reasons I don't do tha Facebook  Socks still got butt like a leather seat... |
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Timmy84 |
Now you know why I don't go there because of bullshit like this... |
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CrabalockerFis
hwife 
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I noticed this awhile ago. I was wondering if they were allowed to do that. |
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HatrinaHaterwi
tz 
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I knew from the start that I loved you with all my heart. |
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OnlyNDaUsa 
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i have been in about 5 of these class action deals. not bad, you get a little check and it is free money. not bad. "Keep on shilling for Big Pharm!" |
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Timmy84 |
OnlyNDaUsa said:
i have been in about 5 of these class action deals. not bad, you get a little check and it is free money. not bad.
Interesting... |
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OnlyNDaUsa
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Timmy84 said:
OnlyNDaUsa said:
i have been in about 5 of these class action deals. not bad, you get a little check and it is free money. not bad.
Interesting...
hey $10 is $10...  "Keep on shilling for Big Pharm!" |
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Timmy84 |
OnlyNDaUsa said:
Timmy84 said:
Interesting...
hey $10 is $10...
If someone put me in their little story book, I at least deserve $50. Fuck that.  |
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OnlyNDaUsa
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Timmy84 said:
OnlyNDaUsa said:
hey $10 is $10...
If someone put me in their little story book, I at least deserve $50. Fuck that.
yeah for that $10 seems lite
"Keep on shilling for Big Pharm!" |
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aardvark15 |
Timmy84 said:
OnlyNDaUsa said:
hey $10 is $10...
If someone put me in their little story book, I at least deserve $50. Fuck that.
I'm not going to get the money. If it was a just amount of money sure. I'll just let them give it to a charity or someone else, I don't need $10. |
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RodeoSchro |
I just got something similar about Southwest Airlines drink coupons. Drink coupons?
Yep, drink coupons. I'm scratching my head trying to figure out how anyone could possibly claim they got screwed because they were given drink coupons with their ticket purchase but didn't use them.
And you don't get cash in this settlement - you get more drink coupons. |
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nursev |
Yeah I got one too and I have gotten small checks from other lawsuits such as AT&T and loan companies. |
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Timmy84 |
I got the same e-mail a few days ago too... but they want you to mail them... and I'm skeptical of sharing information for $10.  |
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Timmy84 |
aardvark15 said:
Timmy84 said:
If someone put me in their little story book, I at least deserve $50. Fuck that.
I'm not going to get the money. If it was a just amount of money sure. I'll just let them give it to a charity or someone else, I don't need $10.
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cborgman 
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Timmy84 said:
aardvark15 said:
I'm not going to get the money. If it was a just amount of money sure. I'll just let them give it to a charity or someone else, I don't need $10.
same here. i got one, but the effort to get the 10 dollars via check some months down the road doesnt seem worth it. Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. - Lord Acton |
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Timmy84 |
cborgman said:
Timmy84 said:
same here. i got one, but the effort to get the 10 dollars via check some months down the road doesnt seem worth it.
Right. Like why risk getting more people to intrude on your address just to get $10? It just seems scammy... and I'm not on Facebook that much so I don't know why I would involve myself in that. |
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Visionnaire
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It's been awhile since I checked my e-mails.
I probably should get to it pretty soon.
I know I should be checking 'em more regularly, but it's just that I tend to get so easily distracted by the internet porn. |
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JoeyC 
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Timmy84 said:
cborgman said:
same here. i got one, but the effort to get the 10 dollars via check some months down the road doesnt seem worth it.
Right. Like why risk getting more people to intrude on your address just to get $10? It just seems scammy... and I'm not on Facebook that much so I don't know why I would involve myself in that.
 and F*** a Facebook !
Rest in Peace Bettie Boo. See u soon. |
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uniden 
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i got the e-mail yesterday. be kind, be a friend, not a bully. |
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