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See beaconing.
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Facebook settlement: Kill Beacon, pay $9.5 million into fund to promote online privacy
A class action suit over Facebook's controversial Beacon program today received preliminary approval (PDF) by a U.S. District Court, bringing an end to the Beacon service and giving the company an...
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Will Facebook apology backfire in a lawsuit?
ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks with Senior Editor Sam Diaz about the class action lawsuit against Facebook over their Beacon advertising program. They discuss the consequences of possible...
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Facebook and Beacon partners slapped with class action suit
Facebook - along with Beacon partners Blockbuster, Fandango, Overstock and others - has been slapped with a class action lawsuit over the missteps that were taken when the Beacon program was...
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Overstock: Playing wait-and-see with Facebook's Beacon
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg did his mea culpa blog post today, but the real tell will be how advertisers and users react to the newfangled opt-in approach. Thoughts about Zuckerburg's thoughts...
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At last, Facebook's CEO says sorry for Beacon; universal opt-out now an option
Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook, has admitted that mistakes were made when the company rolled out its social ad-system, Beacon, whereby interactions users make on participating sites...
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Zuckerberg speaks: Lessons learned from Beacon
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally addressed the firestorm of controversy around the Beacon ad system. "I'm not proud of the way we've handled this situation and I know we can do better," he...
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Hey Facebook's Zuckerberg, we're the blogosphere and we won't ease up until you kill Beacon
Robert Scoble's so right about Facebook and their suddenly low-visibility CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Paraphrasing Robert's thoughts, he views this low viz as being driven in large measure by the...
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I'll go ahead and say it: Facebook's Beacon MUST DIE. NOW
All you need to know about Facebook's Beacon is contained in the Wikipedia entry for the damn thing: Beacon is a part of Facebook's Ads system that sends data from external websites to Facebook,...
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Facebook Beacon update: No activities published without users proactively consenting
Updated: On November 6, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg proudly launched the new services (Techmeme) that he expected to redefine the advertising business. “People influence people....
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Facebook apologizes for spoiling Christmas, but Beacon's here to stay
A Facebook customer support representative responding to complaints posted on the Facebook "group" that MoveOn.org set-up as part of its anti-Beacon campaign, has aplogized for spoiling christmas!...
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Light Peak: black hole or brilliant beacon?
It's a fight folks, between USB 3.0 and Intel's new Light Peak. USB 3.0 is already shipping and Light Peak has yet to be announced, but by late next year they'll be duking it out for the hearts...
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Can private sector, sensors, innovation save our waterways?
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Most beacon communities serve the bushes
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Facebook settlement: Kill Beacon, pay $9.5 million into fund to promote online privacy
A class action suit over Facebook's controversial Beacon program today received preliminary approval (PDF) by a U.S. District Court, bringing an end to the Beacon service and giving the company an...
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Will Facebook apology backfire in a lawsuit?
ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks with Senior Editor Sam Diaz about the class action lawsuit against Facebook over their Beacon advertising program. They discuss the consequences of possible...
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Facebook and Beacon partners slapped with class action suit
Facebook - along with Beacon partners Blockbuster, Fandango, Overstock and others - has been slapped with a class action lawsuit over the missteps that were taken when the Beacon program was...
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Art with Flight Patterns
On a recent visit to the Gray Area Beacon, an art gallery in San Francisco, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi caught up with visual artist Aaron Koblin. His "Flight Patterns" has become a worldwide...
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Facebook user survey highlights insecurity over Beacon fiasco
Facebook is surveying its users on their profile pages in an effort to gauge the damage from the Beacon fiasco. I couldn't resist the survey since I wanted to see how Facebook backed into the big...
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Here's how I've just "nuked" Beacon off my Facebook page
 As you may have heard by now, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg not only issued a mea culpa today about how they've handled that privacy-invading Beacon advertising notification service of theirs....
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Overstock: Playing wait-and-see with Facebook's Beacon
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg did his mea culpa blog post today, but the real tell will be how advertisers and users react to the newfangled opt-in approach. Thoughts about Zuckerburg's thoughts...
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