Facebook takes another shot at settling privacy lawsuit

A US judge said he would consider whether to preliminarily approve Facebook’s second attempt to settle allegations the social networking company violated privacy rights.

Earlier this year, US District Judge Richard Seeborg rejected a proposed class action settlement over Facebook’s ’Sponsored Stories’ advertising feature. But at a hearing on Thursday in San Francisco federal court, Seeborg was much less critical of a revised proposal and promised a ruling “very shortly.”

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