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A professor at the University of Minnesota Law School has asserted that Facebook Beacon – the social network’s new ad program for tracking activities on third-party web sites – may actually be illegal. The professor’s rationale? A New York State privacy law that states a company can be liable when:
“any person whose name, portrait, picture, or voice is used within this state for advertising purposes or for the purposes of trade without the written consent first obtained”
Is the professor onto something, or is this just legal mumbo jumbo? The daily poll asks:
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