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• Luxxotica Agrees To $5.9 Million Settlement Over Search Ad Restrictions in Raw on 07/16/2019
  

  Luxottica and 13 other contact lens retailers allegedly agreed to restrict keyword advertising on search engines in response to legal threats by 1-800 Contacts.

• Lawmakers Blast FTC's 'Woefully Inadequate' $5 Billion Settlement With Facebook in Digital News Daily on 07/16/2019
  

  "We are concerned that the FTC has failed to impose strict structural reforms and managerial accountability that would put an end to Facebook's privacy invasions," Sens. Ed Markey, Richard Blumenthal, and Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) write.

• AT&T Wants Location Privacy Suit Sent To Arbitration in Digital News Daily on 07/15/2019
  

  AT&T is joining T-Mobile in arguing that wireless subscribers have no right to sue over disclosure of their geolocation data.

• FTC Urged To Investigate Editorial Decisions At Google, Facebook And Twitter in Digital News Daily on 07/15/2019
  

  "Companies that are this big and that have the potential to threaten democracy this much should not be allowed to curate content entirely without any transparency," Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) say in a letter to the FTC.

• Google Home Shares Recordings With Outside Contractors in Digital News Daily on 07/12/2019
  

  Google Home smart speakers can transmit people's conversations back to the company even when they don't intend to interact with the devices, Google admitted this week. What's more, Google sometimes sends portions of those conversations to outside contractors who are tasked with analyzing language patterns.

• ACLU Presses Case Against Kentucky Governor Over Facebook Blocks in Digital News Daily on 07/12/2019
  

  A federal appellate court in New York this week may have handed the ACLU new ammunition in its First Amendment battle with Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin.

• Trump Drops Effort To Include Citizenship Question On Census in Digital News Daily on 07/11/2019
  

  Major ad industry groups, as well as companies including Uber and Nielsen, opposed including the citizenship question.

• Lawmakers Urged To Reject Content 'Neutrality' Proposal in PolicyBlog on 07/11/2019
  

  "Publishing third-party content online never can be "neutral," a broad coalition of academics and organizations say.

• Ocasio-Cortez Sued Over Twitter Block in Digital News Daily on 07/10/2019
  

  The lawsuit, by a former New York state assembly member, came hours after a federal appeals court ruled @realDonaldTrump violated the constitution by blocking critics on Twitter.

• California Lawmakers Reject Key Revision To Privacy Law in Digital News Daily on 07/10/2019
  

  An amendment that would have made California's landmark privacy law more business-friendly was rejected Tuesday by a 3-3 vote in the state Senate Judiciary Committee.

Comments by Wendy All comments by Wendy

• Sen. Markey Unveils Bill To Restore Net Neutrality by Wendy Davis (Digital News Daily on 03/06/2019)
  

  The article should have said the proposal drew the support of 52 Senators last year. Thanks for catching!

• ANA Cheers Supreme Court Order In Fight Over Cell Phone Radiation Warnings by Wendy Davis (Digital News Daily on 06/28/2018)
  

  @Cynthia Franklin -- The Supreme Court granted CTIA's petition, vacated the earlier ruling, and sent the case back to the appellate court for reconsideration. While today's order doesn't explicitly invalidate the Berkeley ordinance, the decision to remand for a new hearing leaves CTIA in a better position than before, because the group can now argue its case again -- and this time, can draw on this week's ruling involving the crisis pregnancy centers. The headline has been revised to reflect the ANA's reaction to the order.

• FCC Passes Broad Privacy Rules, Limits Behavioral Advertising By Broadband Providers by Wendy Davis (Daily Online Examiner on 10/27/2016)
  

  The rules are very broad, and go beyond a prohibition on selling data. While the FCC hasn't yet published the full regulations, a fact sheet released today specifies that opt-in consent is required before ISPs can "use" or "share" data about consumers' "sensitive" data -- which the FCC says includes Web browsing and app usage history.

• Rural Americans Less Likely To Use Email, Watch Online Video by Wendy Davis (PolicyBlog on 08/12/2016)
  

  Thanks for catching, Chuck. That sentence you flagged has been fixed to state that nearly four in 10 online urban residents use online video or voice conferencing. 

• Fox And 'Bergen Record' Settle Copyright Battle Over 9/11 Photo by Wendy Davis (Daily Online Examiner on 02/16/2016)
  

  Hi Chuck,Yes, I meant to say that the newspaper group sued Pirro. Thanks for catching! It's been fixed.,

• FTC Allowed To Sue Wyndham For Failing To Protect Users' Data by Wendy Davis (PolicyBlog on 04/07/2014)
  

  Thanks for catching Chuck. The sentence is now fixed.

• Facebook User Says Halal Ruling Isn't Kosher by Wendy Davis (PolicyBlog on 02/22/2013)
  

  Good suggestion, @edyson. Great point. We've updated the headline.

• School Sued For Reading Student's Private Facebook Messages by Wendy Davis (PolicyBlog on 07/23/2009)
  

  Dan, I think this type of official activity clearly has the potential to impact the advertising and media business. A demand by a school, or employer or the government to view consumers' Facebook pages could have a long-lasting impact on people’s inclination to use social media. And that would certainly affect companies that are currently attempting to use sites like Facebook to market to consumers.

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