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 now proposed a lawsuit settlement that involves shutting down Beacon and paying out $9.5 million to a settlement fund.
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22 Responses
10.13.2009
I saw bacon…not beacon
10.13.2009
"your husband has just rented "brokeback mountain for the 8th time this month."-blockbuster via beacon
10.13.2009
Read this as "Facebook Bacon" and thought "Finally, a bacon app!"
10.13.2009
This doesn’t say bacon….damn….
10.13.2009
ToS does not excuse this. You can’t sign away your rights.If I run a popular site like PayPal and then change the ToS suddenly to say that I have the right to use your credit card, do you really think that would be okay because it’s in the terms?
10.13.2009
Good. Now I can buy a copy of "Busty Cops" without having to worry about it being posted on my wall.
10.13.2009
Either way, bacon is and always will be awesome.
10.13.2009
I don’t know how they could ever think this was a good idea.
10.13.2009
But it’s still illegal, and still should never be done. The fact that credit card fraud is worse is irrelevant.
10.13.2009
I guess it could be worse. "John’s wife just purchased a piano wire bone saw and a boxed DVD edition of Audition."Niiiiiiiiiiiice.
10.13.2009
bacolicio.us/ arstechnica.com/web/new …
10.13.2009
That’s why they’re being sued? And are settling?Maybe not criminal, but this definitely seems to prove that you’re in trouble if you do it.
10.13.2009
Facebook Bacon: blogadilla.com/img/facebook_bacon.jpg
10.13.2009
Nickelback sucks.
10.13.2009
***** facebook!
10.13.2009
No kidding, one less worry. It’s already such a pain trying to avoid clicking on those Share on Facebook popups/expanding boxes by accident when trying to watch videos. And by watch I mean fap to, and by videos I mean porn.
10.13.2009
Android, it’s not illegal. You should try reading some time, it’s pretty awesome.
10.13.2009
credit card fraud is a pretty serious crime, and what most "hackers" wind up getting jail time for. while i don’t like the idea my my personal info moving around without my knowledge, it’s not really even close to someone frauding with your credit card.
10.13.2009
No..that would not be OK. that is not what Facebook Beacon was doing. Therefore it is a ridiculously stupid analogy.
10.13.2009
Oh that!
10.13.2009
I don’t even know what this is. I guess I should read the article?
10.13.2009
Why is this lawsuit worthy again? It’s in the terms