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Class action suit Involving Facebook's Beacon |
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Written by news.cnet.com
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Monday, 18 August 2008 |
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A class action lawsuit filed earlier this week targets Facebook and eight of the participants in Beacon, its ill-fated advertising product that shared information about third-party site activity with the social network. The set of 20 plaintiffs, mostly residents of Texas, filed the suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Tuesday. Named as defendants are Facebook, as well as current or former Beacon participants Blockbuster, Fandango (owned by Comcast), Overstock.com, STA Travel, Zappos, Hotwire (owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp), and GameFly. More... |
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Senate Divided Over Need For New Privacy Laws |
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Written by mediapost.com
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Tuesday, 05 August 2008 |
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WASHINGTON -- Members of the Senate Commerce Committee appear divided about whether new laws are needed to protect Web users' privacy. More... |
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Written by fcw.com
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Tuesday, 05 August 2008 |
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Some privacy rights advocates cheered the Senate Appropriations Committee for threatening hundreds of millions of dollars in State Department funding if the agency does not improve data protections for a passport record system. However, the debate continues about whether lawmakers need to rewrite privacy rules to accommodate new technologies. More... |
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