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Victory: Facebook Beacon Shut Down FOR GOOD!

rkamens's picture
Submitted by rkamens on Sat, 2009-09-19 18:37.

A while back (around a year ago), we helped lead a campaign with MoveOn.org to shut down Facebook's beacon program. While we didn't shut it down, we did force them to make it easy to opt out and landed our story on CNN, USA Today, and other major news outlets. A lawsuit filed shortly after has caused Facebook to completely shut down their beacon program. Additionally, they have to fund an independent organization dedicated to promoting privacy which will probably just turn into another bullshit non-profit. So pats on everybody's back and close your account in celebration!

more at http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/19/1632229/Facebook-Will-Shut-Down-B...

Oh yeah, and fuck facebook!

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