Facebook Denies ‘All Wrongdoing’ in ‘Beacon’ Data Breach

February 11th, 2010 admin

Facebook is denying it illegally breached the privacy of its users in a proposed $9.5 million settlement to a class action challenging its program that monitored and published what users of the social-networking site were buying or renting from Blockbuster, Overstock and other locations. To settle allegations that the social networking site’s “Beacon” program breached federal wiretap and video-rental privacy laws , Facebook …


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