The new education program offers a beacon of hope to these children.

这一新的教育计划为这些孩子们提供了一座希望的灯塔。

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One of the biggest pitfalls came late last year, when Facebook announced an advertising program called Beacon that broadcast news of users' online purchases to their friends.

最大的失误之一发生在去年，当时Facebook宣布了代号“灯塔（Beacon）”的计划，将其用户的在线购买信息发送给他们的朋友。

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Late last week, a federal judge in California gave preliminary approval to a settlement of the class action lawsuit regarding Facebook's Beacon program.

上周，一名加州联邦法官初步批准了一项有关Facebook Beacon(灯塔)广告计划的群体诉讼协议。

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Truth be told, most Facebook users won't give a hoot, the same way that the flurry over the Beacon advertising program in late 2007 was fueled by a few vocal privacy advocates while the general population didn't seem to care about it one way or the other.

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It is similar to Beacon, the free program that allows Facebook to track users' purchases and broadcast them as a newsfeed to their friends.

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Facebook users' protest over Beacon, the program that shared information about their online activity with other Facebookers, was just the tip of the iceberg. 2008 will be the year when consumers finally realize how much personal data marketers have about them, thanks to the Web, and start to get really irked about it.

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