Consumerist
Sprint is now offering a $20 monthly "unlimited" data plan with a catch -- the company will throttle subscribers who use more than 1 GB of data in a month. Those people will see connections drop from 4G LTE to service at extremely slow 2G speeds. "Sprint’s new plan -- selling for only $20/month -- lowers the limbo bar so close to the ground that the term 'unlimited' might not be flexible enough to slip underneath," Consumerist writes.
Dslreports
Frontier Communications is still considering whether to impose data caps on home subscribers, according to a new filing with the Federal Communications Commission. "We continue to monitor the market and continue to consider a usage-based offering as an option," Frontier said, according to DSLReports. "Factors Frontier considers in this process include the FCC's Open Internet rules, policies of other companies, consumer demand, network capacity, and cost, among other factors."
Arstechnica
Washington Redskins receiver Pierre Garcon has sued fantasy sports site FanDuel for allegedly misappropriating his likeness in its service. as well as its ads. "In the operation and sale of online daily fantasy football gaming products, Defendant FanDuel knowingly and improperly exploits the popularity and accomplishments of current Washington Redskins wide receiver Pierre Garçon, along with all the other National Football League ("NFL") players at offensive skilled positions," Garcon alleges in court papers. Ars Technica says the lawsuit "poses the esoteric question of whether it's even possible to lawfully wager on somebody's performance without somehow violating their right of publicity."
Consumerist
A former Ashley Madison customer is suing the company for allegedly misleading users by inflating the number of women who belonged to the service. “Defendants’ fraudulent and deceitful actions include, but are not limited to: marketing that the site had 5.5 million female profiles, when only a small percentage of the profiles belonged to actual women who used the site; hiring employees whose jobs were to create thousands of fake female profiles," the lawsuit reportedly states.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Disney violated the Video Privacy Protection Act by disclosing a hashed serial number of users' Roku devices to Adobe. The judge said that companies can't identify individuals based solely on their devices' serial number. The VPPA -- which was passed after a newspaper obtained the video rental records of Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork -- prohibits video providers from disclosing personally identifiable information about the movies people watch. Internet legal expert Venkat Balasubramani writes that the allegations against Disney "present a good case of statutory ambiguity." "It is simplistic to say that …
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