Blockbuster sued for privacy violation related to Facebook Beacon ad system

Cathryn Elaine Harris, of Dallas County, Texas has filed a privacy violation lawsuit against video rental company Blockbuster.

She is claiming that the company passed her personal information to the popular social networking service Facebook.

This information was passed to Facebook through their controversial Beacon advertising system.

Randy Hargrove, a spokesman for Dallas-based Blockbuster responded in a statement on this lawsuit: “Our alliance with Facebook included numerous levels of privacy protection built in for our online subscribers.”

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