Facebook has confirmed findings of a CA security researcher that the social-networking site’s Beacon ad service is more intrusive and stealthy than previously acknowledged, an admission that ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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’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 ...

IDG News Service attempted to contact most Beacon partners via e-mail, phone or both, but many either never responded or limited their remarks to prepared statements that ignored the privacy questions ...

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 ...