What is the current status of Facebook's lawsuit against Profile Technology (Profile Engine)?
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Firstly, you have it backwards. It began as a lawsuit BY plaintiff Profile Technology, AGAINST Facebook (defendant). Facebook later filed counter-claims (which is a common strategy to delay lawsuits, push up the legal costs of your opponent and generally confuse the issue). A huge amount of misinformation about this case has been posted online (perhaps by PR agencies employed by Facebook in attempts to blacken the image of Profile Technology?), however you can read the original lawsuit filed by Profile Technology Ltd against Facebook at https://profileengine.deskpro.com/downloads/1-documents There's lots of other information at the above site if you're interested to know more background about Profile Engine and their dispute with Facebook. To actually answer your question, both Profile Technology's original claims against Facebook and Facebook's counter-claims against Profile Technology were resolved by a settlement which was negotiated between the parties and a judge in February 2014. A few months after the settlement was signed Profile Technology complained to the court that Facebook was not complying with the terms of the settlement and asked the court to force Facebook to comply with the settlement. A court order forcing compliance with the previously agreed settlement was subsequently issued by the judge. Source: Dockets filed at the Northern District Court of California provide the above facts as public information. Although the terms of the settlement were confidential, most of the things each party demanded during the case are things we can all observe in public. We can therefore draw some conclusions as to the outcome. 1. Facebook wanted takedown of http://profileengine.com search engine site and deletion of all the public data on it. Observation: http://profileengine.com is still online, has more than two million users per month and still includes hundreds of millions of profiles which Facebook provided to it under the 2008 contract. 2. Profile Technology complained that Facebook was blocking the sharing of links to http://profileengine.com. Observation: It is now possible to share links to http://profileengine.com on Facebook. 3. Profile Technology demanded the removal of fake Facebook pages in the name of Profile Engine distributing misinformation about Profile Engine. They also demanded that Facebook stop showing messages falsely describing profile engine as "unsafe". They also demanded the restoration of their own Facebook account which Facebook had suspended. Observation: Those fake pages criticising Profile Engine seem to have all gone off Facebook and a search of Facebook for the term "Profile Engine" today comes up with only one result - a genuine, official Profile Engine page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/the.profile.engine Although we do not know whether Facebook paid monetary damages to Profile Technology, these observations all seem to indicate that the effective outcome of the settlement was probably a win for Profile Technology Ltd.
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