A long-running legal dispute that was settled is now bubbling up once again. Namely, the way that Facebook appropriates children and teen users' names and photos for "Sponsored Story" ads when users "Like" something, regardless of whether such users want to be seen as endorsing the subject of their thumbs-upping.
A Sponsored Story is an advertisement that appears on a user's Facebook page and typically includes a friend's name and profile picture along with a comment suggesting that they 'like' the advertiser in question.
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