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eBay's $56 million settlement caps a cyberstalking campaign that sent employees to jail

A $56 million financial settlement resolves the civil claims from an eBay harassment campaign in which employees cyberstalked a Boston couple. Cyberstalking, in legal terms, is the use of electronic communications to repeatedly target…

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