Tagged Gets Tagged By New York Attorney General
Tagged.com, which bills itself as the “third-largest” social networking site in America, is being sued by the state of New York for “deceptive email marketing practices and invasion of privacy,” due to their practice of what amounts to chain-email. When an unsuspecting new user signed up for the site, Tagged would mine their address book and send out a message to everyone in it which told the recipients that their friend had posted photos on the site for them to view. No photos actually existed, and if anyone tried to view them, they were forced to sign up ... more