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did anyone else get a weird e-mail from facebook about the beacon program? what is that? it's freaking me out
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It's nothing to worry about.
Beacon was a program that, effectively, allowed third party marketers to post information about your purchasing behaviour with them to your wall.
A class action suit got filed against Facebook for the Beacon program, alleging that Facebook didn't give users enough notice and opt out options in Beacon, and it was agianst privacy laws.
Facebook shut down the Beacon program on September 21, 2009.
Facebook settled the lawsuit a few months ago.
Facebook is required to tell all their users about this settlement.
Facebook wasn't found 'guilty' of doing any wrong, but they did stop the program all the same. (They have Facebook Link now, which does something sort of similar, but with much more transparency.)
If the e-mail said you can get money out of Facebook because of this lawsuit, it's a scam.
Read more about it here:
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And don’t worry. It’s nothing except that they are required by the court to let all users who were around during Beacon to know what has happened with the lawsuit.
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