
Facebook is agreeing to pay up to $10 each to users who appeared in the social-networking site’s “Sponsored Stories” advertising program without their permission. The revised settlement agreement to a class action, lodged Saturday, comes two months after a federal judge said he had “serious concerns” with the deal, which originally had provided a $10 million payout to attorneys suing Facebook and $10 million to activist and research groups in what is known as a cy pres award. Read the full story at Wired.