Social networking website Facebook was awarded $711.2 million in
damages relating to an anti-spam case against Internet marketer Sanford
Wallace, court documents show.
The site filed an anti-spamming case against Wallace in February for
accessing people’s Facebook accounts without their permission and
sending phony mail and posts to the individuals’ public message wall,
the company said in a blog post. Read the full story [Reuters]
Social networking website Facebook was awarded $711.2 million in
damages relating to an anti-spam case against Internet marketer Sanford
Wallace, court documents show.
The site filed an anti-spamming case against Wallace in February for
accessing people’s Facebook accounts without their permission and
sending phony mail and posts to the individuals’ public message wall,
the company said in a blog post. Read the full story [Reuters]
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