Suggests $20m settlement offer for faces-in-ads feature was
'plucked from thin air'
Those kind folk at Theregister tell us that Facebook's attempt to end
litigation brought against it in the US over the launch of its unpopular
"sponsored stories" feature has backfired with a judge throwing out
the company's settlement offer late last week.
The social network had been expected to pay out around $20m
and make amendments to sponsored stories, which arrived in Facebook in December
2011. The feature slurped up users' photos and used their faces in Facebook's
in-site ads for brands after they had merely clicked the "thumbs-up"
button and "Liked" the company.
Five complainants in the case filed a lawsuit seeking
class-action status against Mark Zuckerberg's company, disputing Facebook's use
of their photos in its advertisements…..
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