Users won, did they? How much were they individually compensated? (No need to look up the answer - users received nothing.) Facebook settled that particular la

Users won, did they? How much were they individually compensated? (No need to look up the answer - users received nothing.) Facebook settled that particular lawsuit, so no judge had an opportunity to determine whether there was an actual injury or not. Facebook itself admitted no wrongdoing - settling this sort of thing usually means you've done a cost-benefit analysis and it's cheaper and easier to just pay off the lawyers. As for the independent privacy foundation that Facebook was required to fund - anyone here heard from it lately? (Anyone here heard of it at all?) And as for Beacon itself being closed - well, it certainly doesn't look like it slowed down Facebook much, did it? The Beacon lawsuit did nothing for anybody, aside from the plaintiffs' lawyers. Arguing that 'users won' is delusional.