NY-based Attorney General to Sue Tagged.com for Stealing Identities of 60 Million Users
A New York-based Attorney General plans to sue social networking website Tagged.com for allegedly stealing the identities of its 60 million users through illegally sent email messages that infiltrated their contacts lists without their permission.
In an interview Thursday, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has served the social networking site with a notice of intent, saying that they plan to file charges against Tagged following its move to illegally acquire members’ contact list in a bid to increase the internet traffic to its website.
“Tagged.com has violated the privacy and stole the identities of 60 million members. It is unethical and illegal for Tagged to browse through their email contacts just to bolster their internet traffic,” Cuomo said.
To date, there are more than 80 million users on Tagged.com. The San Francisco-based social networking site is third after competitor Facebook.com and MySpace.com.
Cuomo added in his letter of intent that Tagged intentionally tricked the users to hand over their contact lists to send out spam messages.
This spam appeared as a personal message from the users email addresses.
On the other hand, Tagged.com CEO Greg Tseng dismissed Cuomo’s claims, saying that it is “inaccurate” to point to the company as the culprit for the said promotional messages.
In his blog post on Thursday, Tseng said that Cuomo’s allegations about identity theft and invasion of privacy is a very serious. The CEO further said that their company did not illegally access the users’ emails and contact addresses.
But the attorney general said that the misleading emails, which were sent from April to June, was sent to people to lure them into viewing photos and other information about their friends.
Cuomo said that once the receivers opened the spam emails, it will redirect them to the website’s page “forcing” them to become Tagged members.
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