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Facebook Settles Class Action Over Online Privacy

By Edward Bills

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Social networking site Facebook has agreed to pay $9.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over a marketing program that published what users were buying. The settlement was approved by a California federal judge this week. Plaintiffs contested that the Beacon program violated their right to privacy. As part of the settlement, Facebook will issue more than $6 million in grants to organizations that study user privacy online.

Full post as published by Bodily Injury Blog on March 18, 2010 (boomark / email).

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