Facebook boss apologises for Beacon blunder

FACEBOOK will allow members to turn off a controversial feature that monitors the websites they visit, and its chief executive apologised for not responding sooner to complaints.

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said the online social network took too long to react to users’ concerns about the Facebook Beacon feature, which notifies a user’s friends of visits to affiliated websites.

“We’ve made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we’ve made even more with how we’ve handled them. We simply did a bad job with this release, and I apologise for it,” he said.