In the end, Facebook beacon resulted in a couple class-action lawsuits for Facebook and the partner sites associated with the service.

结果，Facebook beacon导致一对夫妇集体诉讼Facebook和其合作伙伴的相关服务。

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A FEW years ago, Facebook was forced to retreat from a new service called Beacon.

几年前，Facebook被迫放弃名为Beacon的新业务。

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The rest of the money was placed in a sovereign wealth fund that has ever since lavished the British people with the most generous welfare system on the planet and made the National Health Service a beacon of medical research.

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Facebook re-branded the technology behind Beacon as an opt-in service called Facebook Connect in fall 2008 and launched it as a tool that allows Facebook users to sign into third-party sites using their Facebook IDs.

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Beacon was quickly changed in order to give users an opt-in or opt-out button from the service.

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