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• Verizon Asks SCOTUS To.Review Privacy Fine in MediaDailyNews on 11/14/2025
  

  The FCC violated Verizon's right to a jury trial by imposing a $47 million fine over alleged privacy violations, the telecom says in its request for Supreme Court intervention.

• Tech Platforms Sue To Block California Law Restricting Recommendations in MediaDailyNews on 11/14/2025
  

  "Part of what makes TikTok TikTok is that it introduces people to content that it believes will interest them," the company says in a new lawsuit challenging the law.

• TikTok Users Withdraw Privacy Claims Over In-App Browser in MediaDailyNews on 11/13/2025
  

  Experts who reviewed TikTok's code determined that it wasn't used to collect "data of concern," attorneys told a judge this week.

• Ex-Officials, Watchdogs Back Slaughter FTC Reinstatement Bid in MediaDailyNews on 11/13/2025
  

  Ousted FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter is drawing support in her battle with Trump from more than 30 former agency officials, including ex-FCC chair Tom Wheeler.

• All The Private Chats Fit To Sift in Media 3.0 on 11/13/2025
  

  "Anyone in the world who has used ChatGPT in the past three years must now face the possibility that their personal conversations will be handed over to 'The Times' to sift through at will in a speculative fishing expedition," OpenAI argues in a letter to the court.

• Kochava Privacy Settlement Granted Final Approval in MediaDailyNews on 11/12/2025
  

  A federal judge in Idaho on Wednesday granted final approval to a settlement requiring data broker Kochava to revise some privacy practices to settle class-action claims over the alleged sale of app users' location data.

• Meta Seeks To Appeal Ruling Over Scam Ads in MediaDailyNews on 11/12/2025
  

  Meta Platforms has asked a federal judge to authorize an immediate appeal of his recent decision allowing Facebook users to proceed with key claims in a lawsuit over scam ads.

• Cox Presses SCOTUS To Throw Out Piracy Verdict in MediaDailyNews on 11/11/2025
  

  Broadband provider Cox Communications warns that a copyright infringement verdict against it will lead to "mass evictions" from the internet.

• Amazon Fights Prime Video User Bid To Revive Privacy Suit in MediaDailyNews on 11/11/2025
  

  Amazon is urging the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to reject Prime Video users' attempt to revive claims that the company wrongly shared information about their video viewing with corporate affiliates.

• TikTok Can't Shake Nevada Suit Over 'Addictive' Design in MediaDailyNews on 11/10/2025
  

  Nevada can proceed with a lawsuit alleging that TikTok's design features, such as videos that play automatically, injure young users by addicting them to the service, the state's highest court has ruled.

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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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