- Court Rejects Tech Companies' Bid For Fast Knockout Against Right-Wing Activists
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, August 21, 2019
The tech companies' request to quickly dispose of a lawsuit accusing th ...
- Location Privacy Suit Dropped Against Google And Apple, But Not Facebook
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, August 20, 2019
The case centers on allegations that Facebook collects and stores information abo ...
- Omniverse Says It's Shutting Down After Piracy Suit, Seeks Mediation
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, August 20, 2019
In new court papers, Omniverse One World Television, sued earlier this ye ...
- Google Sues Over Bogus Takedown Notices, Extortion Scheme
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, August 19, 2019
Google has sued a resident of Omaha, Nebraska for allegedly falsely accusi ...
- Sanders Proposes Ban On Police Use Of Facial Recognition Technology
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, August 19, 2019
The presidential candidate's call for a ban comes as cities and stat ...
- Beto O'Rourke Pushes Tech Platforms To Ban Hate Speech
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, August 16, 2019
O'Rourke wants to require social media platforms to take down "hateful activit ...
- Senate Democrats Urge FCC To Hold Off Approving T-Mobile Merger
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, August 16, 2019
"We have major antitrust concerns regarding the impact of the proposed T-Mobile/Spri ...
- Domino's Wants Supreme Court To Limit Disabilities' Rights Law
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, August 15, 2019
"Companies across every industry are battling website-accessibility lawsuits, with no consistent messa ...
- TAG/BSI Survey: Advertisers Should Steer Clear Of Hate Speech, Porn, Piracy
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Many consumers say companies should avoid having their ads appear next ...
- Sen. Wyden Presses Wireless Carriers To Shed Data
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, August 12, 2019
"In this modern era of massive data breaches, it is critical th ...
- Supreme Court Urged To Decide If Grindr Can Be Sued Over Stalking
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, August 9, 2019
"Grindr was on repeated notice of the dangers, but took no ste ...
- Booking.com Argues It's Entitled To Trademark
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, August 9, 2019
The Supreme Court should leave in place a ruling that online hot ...
- Appellate Court Sides Against Facebook In 'Faceprint' Privacy Battle
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, August 8, 2019
Users in Illinois can proceed with a class action accusing Facebook ...
- Correction: Unroll.Me Sold Email Data For Market Research Purposes
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, August 9, 2019
- Unroll.Me Duped Consumers About Privacy, FTC Says
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, August 8, 2019
Unroll.Me parent company Slice Technologies sells "anonymized" information about people's emails ...
- Lawmakers Question Facebook About Messenger Kids Privacy Glitch
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, August 7, 2019
"The need to protect children who use Messenger Kids and Facebook's promis ...
- Facebook Sues Two Developers Over Mobile Ad Fraud
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, August 7, 2019
The sophisticated scheme involved efforts to make it seem that fake clic ...
- Google's $5.5M 'Safari Hack' Settlement Thrown Out By Court
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, August 6, 2019
A federal appellate court has thrown out a class-action settlement that wou ...
- Facebook, Feds Oppose EPIC's Attempt To Intervene In $5B Privacy Settlement
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Government settlements can't be disrupted "merely because a third party dislikes t ...
- AT&T, FTC Forge Settlement To Resolve Broadband Throttling Battle
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, August 5, 2019
The settlement "in principle" addresses allegations that AT&T duped millions of custome ...
- T-Mobile Customers Fight To Keep Location Privacy Lawsuit In Court
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, August 5, 2019
"This case must remain in a public forum," argued the plaintiffs' counse ...
- Proposed Bill Would Enable Opting Out Of Political Campaign Targeting
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, August 2, 2019
The "Voter Privacy Act of 2019," introduced this week, would require politic ...
- Set TV Ordered To Pay $7.5 Million For Copyright Infringement
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, August 2, 2019
The order stemmed from a 2018 suit by Amazon, Netflix and ...
- FCC Votes To Collect More Precise Broadband Data
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, August 1, 2019
The move comes after the agency had to revise its most rece ...
- Court Sides With Facebook Over Hamas Attacks
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, August 1, 2019
The decision marks the third time a federal appellate court has rul ...
- Broadcasters Sue Streaming Service Locast
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 31, 2019
The networks are seeking an injunction that would prohibit Locast from streami ...
- Amazon Loses Another Fight Over Shoddy Marketplace Merchandise
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 31, 2019
"Amazon bears responsibility for putting the defective product into the stream ...
- Sen. Hawley Targets Infinite Scrolls, Autoplay, Other 'Addictive' Big-Tech Practices
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Hawley frames his legislation as targeting addiction, but some of his proposa ...
- Facebook To Challenge Robo-Texting Ruling
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Facebook plans to ask the Supreme Court to review a recent decisi ...
- Proposed Bill Could Curb Content Moderation By Web Companies
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 29, 2019
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Arizona)'s proposed "Stop The Censorship Act" would strip onli ...