Jerk.com, Napster Co-Founder Misused Facebook Data, FTC Says
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Jerk.com and its operator, Napster co-founder John Fanning, improperly harvested users’ public information from Facebook Inc. to label people a “Jerk” or “Not a Jerk.”
Jerk.com violated the FTC Act by misleading more than 73 million consumers that their content had been created by other users of the website, even though most of it had been taken from Facebook profiles, the agency said in a statement today.