Ironically or not, Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg’s
privacy was violated by a minor independent online magazine called 02138, which
published mainly articles about Harvard and Harvard alumni. The documents that
02138 published on its web site are related to the popular lawsuit filed
against Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg in 2004. In September 2004, three of
Mark Zuckerberg’s former Harvard colleagues sued him in court claiming that it
was them who had the idea of creating a Facebook-like social networking web
site and that Zuckerberg stole it while working for them. The lawsuit between
Facebook’s founder and his former Harvard colleagues hasn’t got to an end.
Zuckerberg seems to have been so irritated, that he already
filed a lawsuit, asking the court to force the online magazine to remove the
incriminatory documents. According to a Wall Street Journal’s Friday report,
Facebook announced 02138 about the legal action asking for the removal of the
online documents on Thursday.
They included Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard application, which
reportedly contained his Social Security number and his parent’s New York house
address, an online diary post where Zuckerberg was talking about being “a
little intoxicated”, as well as a 2004 email that Facebook’s head sent to
Harvard officials describing as a “minor annoyance” complaints that he used
others’ idea for creating Facebook.
The documents were digged up by the freelance reporter Luke O'Brien who said for the New York Times he had done nothing wrong in obtaining the documents and that neither side in the lawsuit had improperly leaked them to him.
However, 02138 announced on its website that Federal judge Douglas Woodlock ruled that the independent Harvard alumni magazine 02138 had the right to release the documents, which were part of another court case.
“I'm delighted to announce that Judge Douglas Woodlock of