This story has not been around for long and, as yet, there is not a huge amount of information available about it. However, I have been talking about Facebook quite a lot lately and felt that this was a good story to share with all of you. Three adults and two minors filed a civil suit against Facebook, claiming that the popular social networking site violates California privacy laws.

Based on information taken from the Insurance Journal and the Marketing Pilgrim, this lawsuit alleges that Facebook violates California privacy law by sharing personal information with third parties (without adequate consent) and that Facebook engages in data mining/harvesting without fully informing users.

The suit was filed in Orange County Superior Court and, as expected, Facebook says the suit is without merit and that it plans to fight it. So far, this has been a difficult year for Facebook. Security concerns, privacy concerns, a high profile problem with the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and now this lawsuit. Looks like Facebook's 'friend requests' are getting denied....