Lawmakers in the House of Representatives passed the Consumer Review Fairness Act, which prohibits companies from including non-disparagement clauses in contracts with consumers. The Senate already passed its own version of the bill, which differs only slightly from the one approved by the House.

Google Fiber is now offering residents of Morrisville, North Carolina the opportunity to sign up for broadband service. The company will offer residents Gigabit connections for $70 a month, and 100 Mbps speeds for $50 a month.

The EU is asking Facebook about its decision to use WhatsApp data for advertising. "That they didn’t merge data wasn’t the decisive factor when the merger was approved, but it was still a part of the decision so therefore we’re asking some follow-ups to find out what’s going on," EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said, according to Bloomberg News.

Verizon will zero-rate streams from the NFL Mobile app, the company said today. The app, available to LTE smartphone users, offers streams of live football games.

Facebook will no longer ban people from sharing the Pulitzer Prize winning 1972 photo "The Terror of War," which shows a 9-year-old girl running after being injured in a napalm attack. "Because of its status as an iconic image of historical importance, the value of permitting sharing outweighs the value of protecting the community by removal, so we have decided to reinstate the image on Facebook where we are aware it has been removed," Facebook said in a statement.

AT&T says it has "no regulatory concerns" about its decision to exempt DirecTV video streams from consumers' data caps. "We feel very good about it from that aspect. We’re not prioritizing [data], we’re treating it all the same,” Glenn Lurie, president and CEO of AT&T’s mobility and consumer operations, reportedly said.

AT&T won't count data streamed through the DirecTV app against wireless users' data caps. But the company is reserving the right to manage its network by reducing users' speeds.

Comcast users subject to the company's data caps are raising questions about the accuracy of their broadband meters. Some customers have run their own tests with open source router firmware, and have concluded they're using less data than Comcast's own meters indicate.

What does the legal community make of Apple’s efforts to appeal the European Commission’s recent ruling that the tech giant unlawfully received a $14.5 billion subsidy from Ireland? Well, “Over a dozen lawyers, including three advising companies on appeals, [say it is] impossible to predict how EU courts would rule in an area that has not been tested before,” Reuters reports.

So far this year, Warner Bros. has demanded that Google remove more than four million URLs from its search results, on the grounds that the sites offer infringing content. But some of the sites appear legitimate, including at least two operated by Warner Bros. -- ones promoting The Matrix, Dark Knight and The Lucky One.