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 ...

The legal fight over Facebook Beacon's privacy issues may finally come to an end as the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals approves the settlement. Donna Tam covers Amazon and other fun stuff for CNET ...

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 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 ...

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 ...