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Facebook $9.5 Million Privacy Accord Let Stand by Court

Posted on November 4, 2013 by pogowasright.org

Greg Stohr reports:

The U.S. Supreme Court left intact Facebook Inc. (FB)’s $9.5 million settlement of privacy claims, declining to hear objections that none of the money was being paid to people whose rights were violated.

The justices today let stand a federal appeals court decision that upheld the accord, which resolved claims over Facebook’s discarded Beacon advertising program.

Read more on Bloomberg News.

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