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• Court Won't Revive Suit Against X Over Ad-Targeting Gaffe in Raw on 04/30/2025
  

  A federal appeals court won't reinstate a claim that X violated a Washington state "anti-pretexting" law by asking users to provide contact information for security purposes, then using that information for ad targeting.

• Texas AG Petitions To Reinstate Social Media Restrictions in MediaDailyNews on 04/29/2025
  

  Texas is asking the conservative 5th Circuit to lift a block on a state law that restricts social platforms' ability to serve content and ads to teens under 18.

• Google Blasts RNC Over 'Demonstrably False' Spam Filter Claim in MediaDailyNews on 04/29/2025
  

  Google is urging a federal appeals court to reject the Republican National Committee's attempt to reinstate claims that its messages to Gmail users were wrongly flagged as spam due to partisan bias.

• Tech Groups Make New Plea To Block Florida Social Media Law in MediaDailyNews on 04/28/2025
  

  Florida's new lawsuit against Snap for allegedly defying the social media law makes the request for an injunction "all the more urgent," tech groups argue.

• State Lawmakers Pass Washington Tax On Ad Services in MediaDailyNews on 04/28/2025
  

  The ANA, 4As and other industry organizations have asked Washington Governor Bob Ferguson to veto the bill, which would tax online advertising services such as analytics, search engine marketing and campaign planning.

• FCC Presses Courts To Uphold T-Mobile, Verizon Privacy Fines in MediaDailyNews on 04/25/2025
  

  The FCC says appellate courts presiding over T-Mobile's and Verizon's challenges to privacy fines should uphold them, despite the 5th Circuit's ruling that a similar fine against AT&T was unconstitutional.

• Hearst TV Defeats Video Privacy Suit in MediaDailyNews on 04/25/2025
  

  Siding with Hearst TV, a federal judge threw out a lawsuit claiming that the company violated the federal video privacy law by sharing information about a smartphone user's video history to Google and Braze.

• Musk's X Corp. Sues Minnesota Over Deep Fake Law in MediaDailyNews on 04/24/2025
  

  A Minnesota law criminalizing "deep fakes" is "so vague and unintelligible" that it violates the First Amendment, Elon Musk's X argues.

• DOJ Opposes FTC Commissioners' Reinstatement in MediaDailyNews on 04/24/2025
  

  "The president cannot be compelled to retain the services of principal officers whom he no longer believes should be entrusted with the exercise of executive power," the Justice Department argues.

• Search Advertiser Asks SCOTUS To Sidestep Keywords Battle in MediaDailyNews on 04/23/2025
  

  The Supreme Court should turn away personal injury law firm Lerner & Rowe, which is seeking to revive a lawsuit over the use of its trademarks to trigger search ads, rival firm Accident Law Group argues.

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• Bill That Would Outlaw Behavioral Advertising Advances To House Floor by 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 by 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 by 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 by 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 by 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 by 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 by 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 by 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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