https://cyber.harvard.edu/teaching/ilaw/2011/history/Facebook_Beacon?feed=atom 2026-08-01T19:53:24Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.43.6 https://cyber.harvard.edu/teaching/ilaw/2011/?title=Facebook_Beacon&diff=232&oldid=prev 2011-07-26T19:57:46Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 19:57, 26 July 2011</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l6">Line 6:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 6:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Initially there were 44 partner websites that participated in Beacon, including eBay, Fandango, TripAdvisor, Zappos, Blockbuster, Overstock.com, and Sony, among others. When a Facebook user visited one of these partner websites and participated in certain activities, such as purchasing items or services, their activity was transmitted back to the user’s Facebook page and included in their “news feed.”</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Initially there were 44 partner websites that participated in Beacon, including eBay, Fandango, TripAdvisor, Zappos, Blockbuster, Overstock.com, and Sony, among others. When a Facebook user visited one of these partner websites and participated in certain activities, such as purchasing items or services, their activity was transmitted back to the user’s Facebook page and included in their “news feed.”</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==News <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Stories</del>==</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==News <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Coverage</ins>==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*Louise Story and Brad Stone, [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/30/technology/30face.html Facebook Retreats on Online Tracking ] November 30, 2007.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*Louise Story and Brad Stone, [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/30/technology/30face.html Facebook Retreats on Online Tracking ] November 30, 2007.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*Louise Story [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/29/the-evolution-of-facebooks-beacon/ The Evolution of Facebook’s Beacon] November 29, 2007.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*Louise Story [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/29/the-evolution-of-facebooks-beacon/ The Evolution of Facebook’s Beacon] November 29, 2007.</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p>New page: {{ilaw sidebar}} ==Overview== Beacon was a Facebook advertising system which sent data from external websites to Facebook for the purpose of allowing users to share certain “activities...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{ilaw sidebar}}<br /> <br /> ==Overview==<br /> Beacon was a Facebook advertising system which sent data from external websites to Facebook for the purpose of allowing users to share certain “activities” with their friends, from an affiliated “partner” website. Beacon was rolled out as an “opt-in by default” service, meaning that users were forced to individually opt-out of the service. <br /> <br /> Initially there were 44 partner websites that participated in Beacon, including eBay, Fandango, TripAdvisor, Zappos, Blockbuster, Overstock.com, and Sony, among others. When a Facebook user visited one of these partner websites and participated in certain activities, such as purchasing items or services, their activity was transmitted back to the user’s Facebook page and included in their “news feed.”<br /> <br /> ==News Stories==<br /> *Louise Story and Brad Stone, [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/30/technology/30face.html Facebook Retreats on Online Tracking ] November 30, 2007.<br /> *Louise Story [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/29/the-evolution-of-facebooks-beacon/ The Evolution of Facebook’s Beacon] November 29, 2007.<br /> *Pete Cashmore, [http://mashable.com/2009/09/19/facebook-beacon-rip/ RIP Facebook Beacon] September 19, 2009.<br /> <br /> ==Litigation Documents==<br /> *[http://www.beaconclasssettlement.com/Files/Motion.pdf Plaintiff’s Notice of Motion]<br /> *[http://www.beaconclasssettlement.com/Files/SettlementAgreement.pdf Settlement Agreement]</div>

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