High time someone asked harder questions: Tagged, the San Francisco-based social network that has taken heat for digging into anyone address books and sending invite e-mails to all, is now about to be sued by Andrew Cuomo, New York’s attorney general. From a statement by AG’s office: it plans to sue “for deceptive email marketing practices and invasion of privacy…Tagged devised an illegal plan to lure new members and artificially inflate traffic on its site. Consumers who visited Tagged were tricked into providing the company with access to their personal email contacts, which the company then used to send millions of promotional emails. Tagged disguised these solicitations to make them appear as if they were coming from a personal contact, when they were actually spam.” The statement goes on to say this happened from April to June this year, but I recall getting such e-mails from purported users last year as well (and I mentioned it in a funding post I did last year).