- FTC Urged To Investigate AdBlock Plus Whitelist
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Adblock Plus and other ad blockers that whitelist ads from paying compani ...
- Android Apps Share Sensitive Data With Ad Tech Companies, Report Finds
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, January 14, 2020
People who use popular Android apps are "pervasively tracked and profiled onli ...
- Booking.com Trademark Would Harm Competition, EFF Tells Supreme Court
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, January 13, 2020
Companies aren't entitled to trademark generic words like "booking" by adding ...
- Washington State Lawmakers Propose Privacy Bill -- Again
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, January 13, 2020
The Washington Privacy Act, introduced again on Monday, would allow state residen ...
- Amazon: 'Common Sense' Requires Dismissal Of Alexa Privacy Suit
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, January 10, 2020
"The Alexa service works -- and performs the helpful, valuable, and entertaini ...
- House Lawmakers Propose Expansion Of Children's Privacy Rules
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, January 10, 2020
Two lawmakers in the House have introduced a bill that would prohib ...
- Some Lifeline Phones Installed With Malware, Security Company Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, January 9, 2020
Some Android phones that sold to low-income people for just $35 co ...
- Critics Blast Facebook's Latest Punt On Political Ads
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, January 9, 2020
Facebook's decision to continue allowing lies in political ads, but let use ...
- Firefox Now Blocks Device Fingerprinting By Default
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Mozilla's latest version of the Firefox browser, released this week, is n ...
- Hamas Victims Want Supreme Court To Revive Lawsuit Against Facebook
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Victims of terrorist attacks in Israel want the Supreme Court to revi ...
- Google Agrees To Settle Lawsuit Over Google+ Data Breaches
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, January 7, 2020
The proposed settlement allows users of the defunct Google+ who were affect ...
- Patent And Trademark Office Battles Booking.Com Over Trademark
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Online reservation company Booking.com should not be allowed to monopolize the wo ...
- YouTube Stops Serving Personalized Ads On Children's Videos
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, January 6, 2020
"YouTube now treats personal information from anyone watching children's content on t ...
- Verizon Loses Appeal Over Ad Featuring Royals Manager Ned Yost
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, January 6, 2020
A Verizon ad featuring a testimonial by Kansas City Royals manager N ...
- Supreme Court Urged To Stay Out Of Facebook Robo-Texting Battle
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, January 3, 2020
"Facebook asks this court to validate the practice of making robocalls ...
- TechFreedom Sides With Facebook, Urges Supreme Court To Hear Biometric Privacy Case
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, January 3, 2020
A recent ruling that allows Illinois residents to bring a class-action again ...
- Facebook Prevails In Battle Over Location Privacy
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, January 2, 2020
A federal judge has dismissed a privacy lawsuit accusing Facebook of surreptitious ...
- California Privacy Law Shows Need For National Legislation, Senator Says
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, January 2, 2020
"Congress can no longer sit idly by in this data privacy debate ...
- Facebook Nears Settlement With Alleged Distributors Of Ad-Fraud Software
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 26, 2019
Facebook is close to settling a lawsuit it brought against two develope ...
- FCC Urged To Collect Better Information About Broadband Deployment, Price
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 26, 2019
The Commission must make more robust changes to accurately understand the sta ...
- Google Urges Judge To Throw Out Privacy Claims Over Assistant
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Google says its voice-activated Assistant "did precisely what it is supposed ...
- AT&T Should Name Companies That Received Location Data, Digital Rights Group Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, December 24, 2019
The EFF has asked a federal court to order AT&T to tu ...
- Judge Dismisses Location Privacy Lawsuit Against Google
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, December 23, 2019
Siding with Google, a federal judge has dismissed claims that the compa ...
- Vimeo Asks Judge To Send Fight Over Facial Recognition To Arbitration
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, December 23, 2019
An Illinois resident has no right to proceed with a federal class-acti ...
- New Law Bans Hidden Pay-TV Fees, Makes Retrans Rule Change Fought By AT&T
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Sunday, December 22, 2019
Pay-TV operators will soon have to inform consumers of the total pri ...
- Cox Hit With $1 Billion Verdict Over Users' Piracy
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, December 20, 2019
Sony and other music companies argued that Cox failed to take "reasonab ...
- Facebook To Stop Recommending Friends Based On Phone Numbers Offered For Security
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 19, 2019
Facebook users provided phone numbers in order to authenticate their accounts, b ...
- New York Governor Vows To Introduce Net Neutrality Law
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 19, 2019
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo plans to introduce legislation that would b ...
- YouTube To Impose New Restrictions On Ads Surrounding Children's Videos
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Google will impose some new curbs on ads surrounding child-oriented videos th ...
- Facebook Location Tracking Draws More Criticism On Capitol Hill
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, December 18, 2019
"Turn off 'location services' and they'll still track your location to ma ...