Appeals Court OKs Facebook’s Beacon Settlement

In yet another example of the blistering speed of the U.S. legal system, the $9.5 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit over Facebook’s now-defunct Beacon program, initially announced in March 2010, was finally approved by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and that decision wasn’t even unanimous.

In yet another example of the blistering speed of the U.S. legal system, the $9.5 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit over Facebook’s now-defunct Beacon program, initially announced in March 2010, was finally approved by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and that decision wasn’t even unanimous.

Beacon was introduced by the social network in 2007, and it monitored and shared users’ non-Facebook online activity, such as purchases from Overstock.com or rentals from Blockbuster.

This settlement concerns a now defunct ad program called Beacon, which created controversy for gathering data on friends’ activity off of Facebook and sharing it with users on the social network.

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