- TAG Rolls Out Anti-Fraud And Brand-Safety Certifications In China
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 1, 2021
The Trustworthy Accountability Group and China Advertising Association will begin issuing certificatio ...
- Google Hit With Class-Action Complaint Over 'Worthless' Gift Cards
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 1, 2021
A new lawsuit claims Google's anti-fraud efforts effectively prevent some people fr ...
- Lawmakers Seek FTC Probe Of Online Math Game Over Marketing Tactics
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, February 26, 2021
The FTC should investigate whether Prodigy Education wrongly touts its online ma ...
- TikTok Agrees To $92 Million Privacy Settlement
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, February 26, 2021
TikTok agreed to pay $92 million to settle claims that it violat ...
- Judge Approves Facebook's $650 Million Faceprint Deal
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Sunday, February 28, 2021
A federal judge has granted final approval to a class-action settlement requiri ...
- Google Sued In Washington State Over Political Ads -- Again
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, February 25, 2021
Google continues to violate a Washington state campaign finance law requiring ...
- Apple Privacy Settings Unlawful, Critic Tells Congress
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, February 25, 2021
"Apple's conduct violates current antitrust law and threatens to inflict irreparable ha ...
- FTC To Tackle 'Dark Patterns'
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, February 24, 2021
"Some sites sneak extra items into a consumer's online shopping cart, ...
- Ad Watchdog Tells AT&T To Stop Saying 5G Will Be Built On 'Best Network'
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, February 24, 2021
BBB National Programs' National Advertising Review Board found that claim problematic. ...
- Firefox Unveils New Tool To Prevent Cookie-Based Tracking
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 23, 2021
The new feature, "Total Cookie Protection," prevents cross-site tracking by keeping cooki ...
- T-Mobile 5G Ads Could Mislead Consumers, Watchdog Says -- Again
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 23, 2021
"One of the messages that consumers could reasonably take away from t ...
- Judge Won't Block California Net Neutrality Rules
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Handing the cable industry a defeat, a federal judge in California ...
- FCC Republicans Endorse Regulations For Social Media, Champion Free Speech For TV
Social Media Insider, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Egged on by former President Donald Trump, Republican policymakers spent the bett ...
- Court Sides With Facebook Over BrandTotal Ban
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, February 22, 2021
A federal judge has dismissed analytics company BrandTotal's claims that it w ...
- Virginia Passes Privacy Law Backed By Tech Companies
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, February 22, 2021
Virginia lawmakers have passed a privacy bill similar to a law th ...
- PEN America Withdraws Lawsuit Against White House
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, February 19, 2021
Journalist advocacy organization PEN America on Thursday dropped a lawsuit claiming t ...
- Lawmaker Wants Twitter And Facebook To Crack Down On COVID-19 Anti-Vaxxers
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, February 19, 2021
Sen. Richard Blumenthal is urging Twitter and Facebook to aggressively police the ...
- Comcast Holds Off On Imposing Data Caps In 14 States
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, February 19, 2021
In a reversal, Comcast says it will wait until 2022 before movi ...
- Facebook Emails Reveal Company Knew Of Inflated Metrics, Marketers Argue
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, February 18, 2021
In the fall of 2017, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg alleged ...
- FTC Urged To Investigate Prodigy Math Game Over Alleged 'Bait-And-Switch' Tactics
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, February 19, 2021
Prodigy Education dupes people by representing that its popular online math ga ...
- Maryland Ad Tax Will Backfire, Business Groups Argue In Court Challenge
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, February 18, 2021
Far from stemming fake news or hate speech, Maryland's new tax ...
- TikTok Violates EU Privacy And Consumer Protection Laws, Watchdog Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Social video app TikTok violates the rights of European consumers, fails ...
- Facebook Claims Analytics Company BrandTotal Is Still Scraping Data
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Facebook, which has been battling analytics company BrandTotal in court since Octobe ...
- Consumer Groups Urge Virginia Lawmakers To Beef Up Privacy Bill
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 16, 2021
The proposed bill is "based on the outdated 'notice and opt ou ...
- Cable Industry And California Want To Move Forward With Net Neutrality Battle
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 16, 2021
The cable industry and state of California say there is no reas ...
- Huffington Post And Yahoo Defeat Carter Page's Defamation Lawsuit
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, February 15, 2021
Delaware Judge Craig Karsnitz said Page hadn't shown that the Yahoo articl ...
- Social Platform Parler Returns Online
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, February 15, 2021
Parler stated Monday it will be "built on sustainable, independent technology a ...
- Maryland Legislature Overrides Veto, Enacts New Digital Advertising Tax
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, February 12, 2021
The new Maryland law imposes imposes taxes on companies that have mo ...
- Supreme Court Should Turn Away Facebook In Battle Over Tracking, Users Argue
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, February 12, 2021
A group of Facebook users are urging the Supreme Court to st ...
- Oklahoma Lawmakers Advance Opt-In Privacy Bill
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, February 11, 2021
Oklahoma lawmakers have advanced a broad privacy bill that would require compani ...