Power.com Sues Facebook
July 10, 2009 by Mark Ellis
Filed under Business
Facebook is the world’s largest social networking site with millions of members on every corner of the globe. Unfortunately for Facebook, that does not make it exempt from legal battles, as it most recently discovered when legal adversary Power.com, a relatively tiny web company, countersued Facebook for allegedly not giving its users control over their data, as Facebook’s policy states.
Power is a service that combines social networking sites like, MySpace and Twitter, under one website so that users can access several networks at the same time. However, Facebook is not one of them, as it has blocked Power and previously sued the company for trying to access its network in an allegedly unauthorized manner.
In its countersuit, Power claims that Facebook restricts users’ access to their private information when it does not allow them to access it through services like Power. Facebook has not accepted third-party access to its network quite as readily as other social networking sites, but Power’s claims may demonstrate that Facebook does not have the right to be so discriminating.
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