Facebook’s privacy woes continue with a class action lawsuit that target’s the social network’s privacy policy and how it handles user data. The lawsuit was filed by Canadian law firm Merchant Law Group LL on behalf of Donald J. Woligroski and other class members. The suit accuses Facebook of misrepresenting its privacy policy and deliberately using Woligroski’s personal information for its own commercial gain by stating:
“Facebook has demonstrated and taken a cavalier and arbitrary approach with respect to its legal obligations to the plaintiff and class members and the methods by which Facebook misrepresented to its profit, its privacy policies and how Facebook would share, use and disseminate the personal information of the plaintiff and class action members.â€
As expected, Facebook dismissed the lawsuit as having no merit and will fight it in court. Since the lawsuit does have class action status, it presumably extends to all Canadian Facebookers. Anyone north of the border going to try and put the screws to Facebook by jumping on board this suit?
The United States has announced an increase in most fees charged by its consulates in the Caribbean and elsewhere.
Passport fees are among those being hiked, but US officials say some consular services are also becoming cheaper. The fee for processing adult passport books has been increased from US$100 to US$135 (BDS$273).
Processing a passport book for minors goes from US$85 to US$105 (BDS$212) and passport book renewals for adults now cost US$110 (BDS$222), up from US$75.The changes in 27 fees will become effective from next Tuesday.
“The revised fees will cover actual operating expenses for the 301 overseas consular posts, 23 domestic passport agencies and other centres that provide these consular services to US and foreign citizens,†a statement from the US Embassy in Barbados pointed out.
Some immigrant visa fees are up and others are going down. Processing family-based immigrant visas now costs US$330 (BDS$667), down from US$355. Determining Returning Resident status has gone from US$400 to US$380 (BDS$768).
On the other hand, applicants will have to pay more for the security surcharge, the visa lottery surcharge and the “domestic review of affidavit of supportâ€. The fees for swearing in witnesses, supervising telephone depositions and shipping the remains of non-U.S. citizens are going down. However, it will cost more to get non-immigrant visas as well as certification of true copies of documents and arranging depositions in the judicial services.
The adjusted fees are based on a cost of service study completed by the Bureau of Consular Affairs in June, 2009. The study established the true cost of providing these consular services, which by law must be recovered through collection of fees, according to the embassy. (TY)
TEXAS, United States, Thursday July 8, 2010 – There’s a belief that third time’s a charm. But not so for fraud accused Allen Stanford whose appeal for bail has been rejected on attempt number three.
US District Judge David Hittner yesterday denied Stanford his request to be released pending his trial next January, dismissing the argument that the complexity of his case warrants bail.
The judge said that although the federal detention centre in Houston, Texas, may not be as “posh†as Stanford wants, it’s adequate for him to prepare his defence against the fraud charges against him.
“There is no evidence that it is so burdensome as to impede his ability to prepare for trial,†Hittner said, as he rejected defence attorneys’ contention that the time Stanford spends in jail before his case begins on January 24th, 2011, amounts to a violation of his constitutional rights.
Stanford has been in prison since being held in June last year.
When his trial begins, he will have to answer to 21 fraud charges stemming from an alleged US$8 billion fraud conducted through the Stanford International Bank (SIB) in Antigua and Barbuda.
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