Beacon broadcasts what people buy
Settled. Meta paid or agreed to changes without admitting wrongdoing. How evidence is labeled
Beacon told users’ friends what they bought or rented on partner websites, and it was switched on unless people opted out. Zuckerberg apologized a month after launch. Facebook shut Beacon down in 2009 to settle a class action.
In their words“We’ve made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we’ve made even more with how we’ve handled them.” (Mark Zuckerberg, 2007)
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