Plaintiff pro se Linda Eagle, the former president of banking education company Edcomm, Inc. ended up empty handed even though she prevailed on the merits of her claims of invasion of privacy by misappropriation of identity in her federal lawsuit filed over the alleged hijacking of her LinkedIn account by her former employer following the
PhoneDog v. Kravitz Settlement Points to Need for Agreements on Ownership of Social Media Accounts
Last December, PhoneDog, a mobile phone website, sued Noah Kravitz, after he resigned from the company, alleging that he improperly took control of his Twitter account and approximately 17,000 Twitter followers when he left. While at PhoneDog, Kravitz’s Twitter account was @PhoneDog_Noah. After he left, Kravitz changed the account to @noahkravitz but kept his followers.
LinkedIn Account at Center of Lawsuit
An executive in Pennsylvania who filed suit against her former employer over control of her LinkedIn account under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA” or “Act”) had her CFAA claim dismissed as her lawsuit survived under alternative theories. The decision granting partial summary judgment in Eagle v. Morgan, Civil Action No. 11-4303, (E.D.