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Facebook to kill Beacon: Info-sharing programme crumbles under privacy concerns

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It’s finally over for Beacon, the ill-fated advertising programme that Facebook launched two years ago.

The social network has settled a year-old class action lawsuit that targeted its alleged failure to provide adequate information and privacy controls to users with regard to Beacon, which shared information about users’ information on third-party partner sites in Facebook news feeds.

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