WENDY DAVIS
Wendy Davis is a Senior Writer at MediaPost. You can reach Wendy at wdavis@mediapost.com
- Google Battles SerpApi Over Scraping in
MediaDailyNews on
04/07/2026
"SerpApi believes that it is entitled to vacuum up the content that Google pays to license, and sell that content to others," Google writes in papers filed Monday with U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne
Gonzalez Rogers in the Northern District of California.
- LinkedIn Hit With Privacy Suits Over Browser Scans in
MediaDailyNews on
04/07/2026
LinkedIn on Monday was hit with new class-action privacy lawsuits alleging that it scans users' browsers to learn what extensions have been installed.
- Amazon Accused Of Scraping Videos To Train AI in
MediaDailyNews on
04/06/2026
Amazon was hit with a lawsuit by content creators who allege the company wrongly scraped their YouTube videos in order to train the generative AI system Nova Reel, which aims to create videos from
text prompts.
- SCOTUS Scraps Copyright Infringement Verdict Against Grande in
MediaDailyNews on
04/06/2026
Siding with Grande Communications, the Supreme Court on Monday vacated a lower-court decision that the internet service provider contributed to copyright infringement by failing to disconnect
subscribers who allegedly shared music files.
- Trump Admin To Court: Don't Strike Down Video Privacy Act in
MediaDailyNews on
04/03/2026
"This Court should not conclude that the VPPA is unconstitutional in any respect," the Department of Justice argues to the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals.
- Florida-Led Coalition Backs Louisiana Request To Enforce Parental Consent Law in
MediaDailyNews on
04/03/2026
A Louisiana law prohibiting platforms from allowing minors under 16 to create or maintain accounts without parental permission is "a constitutionally valid response to the harm that platforms are
causing children," 30 states and D.C. argue in a friend-of-the-court brief filed with the 5th Circuit.
- Judge Dismisses Michigan's Video Privacy Claims Against Roku in
MediaDailyNews on
04/02/2026
A federal judge threw out Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel's claims that Roku wrongly disclosed users' video-viewing history to tech companies via analytics tools, but is allowing the state to
proceed with claims that the streaming platform violated a federal children's privacy law.
- Perplexity Battles Amazon Over Shopping Agent Ban in
MediaDailyNews on
04/02/2026
Perplexity late Wednesday asked a federal appellate court to vacate an injunction that would ban the artificial intelligence company's shopping agent, Comet, from Amazon.
- Perplexity, Meta, Google Hit With Privacy Suit in
MediaDailyNews on
04/01/2026
A Utah man is alleging in a new lawsuit that artificial intelligence company Perplexity shares "complete transcripts" of users' chats with Google and Meta, via analytics tools embedded in Perplexity's
online site.
- Court Won't Revive Challenge To Minnesota Deep Fake Law in
MediaDailyNews on
04/01/2026
A federal appellate court this week refused to revive a challenge to a Minnesota law prohibiting "realistic" deep fakes of politicians.
- 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.