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NY Attorney General Files Against Tagged.com for Privacy Violations

The State of New York is suing Tagged.com for "deceptive e-mail and marketing practices and invasion of privacy." The company is accused of deceiving visitors to its site into giving up their personal address book information, which it then used to send out invitations to join its social networking service. The Attorney General says, the company "stole the address books and identities of millions of people."

NY Suing Tagged.com Over Privacy, Brad Stone, bits.blogs.nytimes.com, New York Times, July 9, 2009