Facebook’s Beacon ad service may, ironically, be the best thing that’s happened to the online privacy movement in a while. The controversy raised by the social networking site’s use of the Beacon ...

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 ...

Many partners in Facebook’s Beacon seem reticent to address the raging privacy controversy surrounding the ad program, resorting to terse, vague statements or opting for outright silence when asked ...

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 ...

Facebook is giving members of its social network the ability to completely decline participating in the company’s controversial Beacon ad system, a reaction to intense criticism that Beacon is too ...

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 ...

Facebook’s CEO and Founder Mark Zuckerberg has profusely apologized for missteps in the design and deployment of the Beacon ad system, but he remains unrepentant about what privacy advocates consider ...

The liberal activist group has selected Facebook's advertising program as its latest target, suggesting that the social-networking site is invading users' privacy and doesn't provide enough safeguards ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let stand Facebook Inc's $9.5 million class action settlement over allegations the social networking company's defunct "Beacon" service violated ...