WENDY DAVIS
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- Broadband Providers Battle FCC Over New Data Breach Rules in
PolicyBlog on
05/30/2024
Industry groups say Congress stripped the FCC of authority to issue new data-breach disclosure regulations.
- Amazon Loses Round In Facial Recognition Battle With Teen Gamer in
MediaDailyNews on
05/30/2024
A judge has recommended that an online gamer be allowed to proceed with a lawsuit accusing Amazon of violating an Illinois biometric privacy law by providing cloud services to Take-Two Interactive, which allegedly invites users to upload photos of their faces in order to create avatars.
- Anti-Vax Doctor Loses Battle With YouTube in
MediaDailyNews on
05/29/2024
A federal appeals court won't revive anti-vax doctor Joseph Mercola's lawsuit claiming that YouTube wrongly terminated his account and deprived him of access to his videos.
- FTC Can Proceed With 'Dark Patterns' Charges Against Amazon in
MediaDailyNews on
05/29/2024
Amazon must face charges that it used "manipulative, coercive, or deceptive user-interface designs" to dupe customers into enrolling in Prime.
- Judge Sides With Online Casino In Video Privacy Battle in
MediaDailyNews on
05/28/2024
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Caesars Entertainment violated a federal video privacy law by sharing data with Meta Platforms via its pixel tracking code.
- Google Sued Over Data Collection From DMV in
MediaDailyNews on
05/28/2024
Google allegedly used analytics code to collect personal information from a California resident who renewed her disability placard online.
- Meta Can Proceed With Claims That Voyager Labs Scraped Users' Data in
MediaDailyNews on
05/24/2024
Siding with Meta Platforms, a federal judge is allowing the social media company to proceed with a lawsuit alleging that U.K.-based Voyager Labs -- which provides analytics services to law enforcement -- wrongly gathered data from Facebook users.
- California Assembly Passes Bill Requiring Browser Developers To Offer Opt-Out Tool in
MediaDailyNews on
05/24/2024
The bill would prohibit companies from developing or maintaining web browsers that lack an opt-out preference setting such as the Global Privacy Control.
- Lawmakers Advance Sweeping Nationwide Privacy Bill in
MediaDailyNews on
05/23/2024
The American Privacy Rights Act, already revised since it was unveiled last month, will now move to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which could make additional changes.
- Kids Safety Bill Moves Forward In House in
MediaDailyNews on
05/23/2024
Rep. Frank Pallone warned that the bill "could cause social media companies to overfilter content, out of an abundance of caution about legal risks."
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- Bill That Would Outlaw Behavioral Advertising Advances To House Floor
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Wendy Davis
(Digital News Daily on
07/20/2022)
Here's the most recent version of the bill: https://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF00/20220720/115041/BILLS-117-8152-P000034-Amdt-1.pdf
- Court Sides With Devin Nunes -- Again -- In Battle Over Journalist's Tweet
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Wendy Davis
(Red, White & Blog on
11/23/2021)
Thanks for catching that. It's been fixed
- Bill Seeks To Strip Websites Of Protections For False COVID-19 Information Posted By Users
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Wendy Davis
(PolicyBlog on
07/22/2021)
The piece mentions that Biden later softened his remarks about Facebook
- FCC Chairman Pai To Exit In January
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Wendy Davis
(Digital News Daily on
11/30/2020)
Are you confident the Senate will approve Biden's FCC pick?
- House Republicans Want Tech CEOs To Testify About 'Censorship' Policies
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Wendy Davis
(Digital News Daily on
10/20/2020)
Here's what Biden campaign spokesperson Andrew Bates told The New York Times: “We have reviewed Joe Biden’s official schedules from the time and no meeting, as alleged by the New York Post, ever took place.”
- New York Lawmaker Proposes Data Tax
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Wendy Davis
(Digital News Daily on
01/22/2020)
As currently written, the proposed bill would impose a tax of 5% "on gross income upon every corporation which derives income from the data individuals of this state share with such corporations."
- Facebook Prevails In Battle With Russian 'News' Agency
by
Wendy Davis
(Digital News Daily on
01/15/2020)
Thank you for catching that! The dismissal order was "with prejudice." The sentence has been corrected.
- Sen. Markey Unveils Bill To Restore Net Neutrality
by
Wendy Davis
(Digital News Daily on
03/06/2019)
The article should have said the proposal drew the support of 52 Senators last year. Thanks for catching!
- ANA Cheers Supreme Court Order In Fight Over Cell Phone Radiation Warnings
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Wendy Davis
(Digital News Daily on
06/28/2018)
@Cynthia Franklin -- The Supreme Court granted CTIA's petition, vacated the earlier ruling, and sent the case back to the appellate court for reconsideration. While today's order doesn't explicitly invalidate the Berkeley ordinance, the decision to remand for a new hearing leaves CTIA in a better position than before, because the group can now argue its case again -- and this time, can draw on this week's ruling involving the crisis pregnancy centers. The headline has been revised to reflect the ANA's reaction to the order.
- FCC Passes Broad Privacy Rules, Limits Behavioral Advertising By Broadband Providers
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Wendy Davis
(Daily Online Examiner on
10/27/2016)
The rules are very broad, and go beyond a prohibition on selling data. While the FCC hasn't yet published the full regulations, a fact sheet released today specifies that opt-in consent is required before ISPs can "use" or "share" data about consumers' "sensitive" data -- which the FCC says includes Web browsing and app usage history.
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