Facebook Wants Beacon Challenge Dismissed

Facebook attorneys have asked an appellate court to dismiss activists' challenge to the $9.5 million settlement over the defunct Beacon ad platform.

Facebook wants a challenge to the $9.5 million Beacon settlement dismissed, and submitted a formal request for that with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

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.

The application originally defaulted to an opt-out setting, meaning that it automatically shared the data unless a user specified otherwise.

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