WENDY DAVIS

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• Broadcasters Push For Bill Allowing Them To Bargain With Tech Companies in Digital News Daily on 11/29/2022
  

  A group of broadcasters is urging the Senate to take up a controversial bill that would allow news outlets to band together to negotiate with Facebook and Google over payment for links.

• TikTok Hit With Privacy Lawsuit Over Keystroke Logging in Digital News Daily on 11/29/2022
  

  "TikTok has secretly amassed massive amounts of highly invasive information and data about its users by tracking their activities on third-party websites," a California resident alleges in a class-action complaint against the company.

• Google, iHeartMedia Sued By FTC And States Over Fake Endorsements in Digital News Daily on 11/28/2022
  

  The FTC and seven states sued Google and iHeartMedia over ads by radio announcers who endorsed the Pixel 4 phone, despite never having used the device.

• Court Won't Revive Advertiser's Battle With Facebook Over Phony Accounts in Digital News Daily on 11/28/2022
  

  Siding with Meta Platforms, a federal appellate court refused to revive a lawsuit by advertiser dotStrategy, which claimed it was charged for ad impressions that were delivered to fake accounts.

• Twitter Urged To Fix 'Significant Security Failures' in Digital News Daily on 11/25/2022
  

  Republican Senator Chuck Grassley is urging Twitter to "immediately" correct "significant security failures" reported by whistleblower Peiter Zatko, the company's former security chief.

• Meta and TikTok Sued For Allegedly Violating Texas Social Media 'Censorship' Law in Digital News Daily on 11/25/2022
  

  A right-wing Texas attorney is suing Meta Platforms and TikTok for allegedly suppressing his posts based on viewpoint, in violation of the state's "censorship" law.

• FTC Presses To Proceed With Privacy Complaint Against Kochava in Digital News Daily on 11/25/2022
  

  Kochava "discloses to third parties data that reveals consumers who are making or have made some of the most sensitive decisions in their lives," the FTC argues in papers filed with a federal judge in Idaho.

• IAB And Others Want Supreme Court To Strike Down Florida Social Media Bill in PolicyBlog on 11/23/2022
  

  Florida's social media "censorship" law is "designed to force a sea change in how platforms operate, against the will of both the platforms and the users who have come to rely upon them, and all because Florida does not like the content of the messages that platforms are serving to their users," the IAB and others tell the Supreme Court.

• Google Urged To Stamp Out Misleading Abortion Ads in Digital News Daily on 11/22/2022
  

  "We ask you to address issues with misrepresentation in advertising on Google's site and take a more expansive, proactive approach to addressing violations of Google's stated policy," Sen. Mark Warner and Rep. Elissa Slotkin say in a letter to CEO Sundar Pinchai.

• Biden Administration Sides With Meta In Battle Over Pegasus Spyware in Digital News Daily on 11/22/2022
  

  Israeli company NSO Group, which allegedly distributed malware to WhatsApp users' phones, is not entitled to immunity from civil lawsuits under the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act, the Biden administration tells the Supreme Court.

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• Bill That Would Outlaw Behavioral Advertising Advances To House Floor by Wendy Davis (Digital News Daily on 07/20/2022)
  

  Here's the most recent version of the bill: https://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF00/20220720/115041/BILLS-117-8152-P000034-Amdt-1.pdf

• Court Sides With Devin Nunes -- Again -- In Battle Over Journalist's Tweet by Wendy Davis (Red, White & Blog on 11/23/2021)
  

  Thanks for catching that. It's been fixed

• Bill Seeks To Strip Websites Of Protections For False COVID-19 Information Posted By Users by Wendy Davis (PolicyBlog on 07/22/2021)
  

  The piece mentions that Biden later softened his remarks about Facebook

• FCC Chairman Pai To Exit In January by Wendy Davis (Digital News Daily on 11/30/2020)
  

  Are you confident the Senate will approve Biden's FCC pick?

• House Republicans Want Tech CEOs To Testify About 'Censorship' Policies by Wendy Davis (Digital News Daily on 10/20/2020)
  

  Here's what Biden campaign spokesperson Andrew Bates told The New York Times: “We have reviewed Joe Biden’s official schedules from the time and no meeting, as alleged by the New York Post, ever took place.”

• New York Lawmaker Proposes Data Tax by Wendy Davis (Digital News Daily on 01/22/2020)
  

  As currently written, the proposed bill would impose a tax of 5% "on gross income upon every corporation which derives income from the data individuals of this state share with such corporations." 

• Facebook Prevails In Battle With Russian 'News' Agency by Wendy Davis (Digital News Daily on 01/15/2020)
  

  Thank you for catching that! The dismissal order was "with prejudice." The sentence has been corrected.

• 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.

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