This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. As Facebook began rolling out its newly simplified privacy features ...

Social network settles year-long lawsuit with $9.5m "settlement fund" It's finally over for Beacon, the ill-fated advertising programme that Facebook launched two years ago. The social network has ...

The legal fight over Facebook Beacon's privacy issues may finally come to an end as the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals approves the settlement. Donna Tam covers Amazon and other fun stuff for CNET ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Facebook is closing the book on Beacon, an early advertising experiment ...

An e-mail was sent on Thursday to Facebook users who were members at the time that its controversial, now-defunct Beacon advertising program was operated: it's the official notice about the proposed ...

Privacy advocates are applauding Facebook’s willingness to shut down its controversial Beacon service as a part of a broader settlement in a class-action lawsuit ...

Facebook has succeeded so far in part because it gives people control over what and how they share information. This is what makes Facebook a good utility, and in order to be a good feature, Beacon ...

A class-action suit filed in California charges Facebook and a handful of other companies, including Blockbuster, Fandango and Overstock, with violating online privacy and computer fraud laws related ...

Facebook's Beacon has been nothing but trouble since it launched in 2007, spurring numerous user complaints and a class-action privacy suit. The company has apparently learned its lesson, as it has ...

IDG News Service attempted to contact most Beacon partners via e-mail, phone or both, but many either never responded or limited their remarks to prepared statements that ignored the privacy questions ...