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Technology & Science

Mar. 19, 2010

Judge Approves Facebook Settlement

A federal judge approved a $9.5 million settlement between social networking site Facebook Inc. and class action plaintiffs Wednesday.

By Craig Anderson

Daily Journal Staff Writer

A federal judge approved a $9.5 million settlement between social networking site Facebook Inc. and class action plaintiffs Wednesday despite objections over the creation of a privacy foundation that will include a company representative as one of its three members.

An attorney representing EPIC, an already-existing digital privacy advocacy group, argued that such a foundation would...

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