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• Charter Settles Suit Over Broadband Speeds For $174 Million in Digital News Daily on 12/18/2018
  

  Charter has agreed to refund New York customers $62.5 million in order to resolve allegations that Time Warner Cable duped consumers by advertising faster Internet speeds than it delivered.

• Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Turn Over 'Zombie' Cookies in Digital News Daily on 12/18/2018
  

  Siding with the ad network Turn, a federal judge has dismissed a privacy complaint accusing the company of using a controversial technology to recreate cookies that users deleted.

• Supreme Court Shouldn't Hear Battle Over Bad Reviews, Yelp Says in Digital News Daily on 12/17/2018
  

  Yelp is asking the Supreme Court to turn away attorney Dawn Hassell, who is seeking to force the site to remove negative posts.

• Russians Conducted 'Sweeping And Sustained' Campaign To Influence U.S. Election in Digital News Daily on 12/17/2018
  

  "The strategy for right-leaning groups appears to have been to generate extreme anger and suspicion, in hopes that it would motivate people to vote," a new report states.

• Don't Override State Privacy Laws, Watchdogs Tell Congress in Digital News Daily on 12/14/2018
  

  "Federal privacy legislation that preempts stronger state laws would only benefit technology companies at the expense of the public," advocacy groups tell Congress.

• Facebook 'Bug' Shared Private Photos With Developers in Digital News Daily on 12/14/2018
  

  Facebook apologized in a blog post after a software glitch allowed outside developers to access photos users had uploaded to the service, but hadn't made public.

• Lawmakers Display Limited Grasp Of Google in PolicyBlog on 12/13/2018
  

  "Does Google, through this phone, know that I have moved here?" Rep. Ted Poe asked Google CEO Sundar Pichai. "You make $100 million a year, you ought to be able to answer the question."

• 1-800 Contacts Seeks To Nix Order Stemming From Battle Over Search Ads in Digital News Daily on 12/13/2018
  

  Contact lens retailer 1-800 Contacts is asking the Federal Trade Commission to stay part of a recent order that requires the company to stop engaging in some efforts to police the use of its trademark.

• FCC Allows Phone Companies To Block Text Messages in Digital News Daily on 12/12/2018
  

  The FCC Wednesday voted 3-1 to classify text messaging as an "information" service -- a move that allows phone carriers to censor texts.

• Court Rules Against 'Used' iTunes Seller in Digital News Daily on 12/12/2018
  

  ReDigi, which sought to create a used marketplace for digital music, infringed copyright by illegally reproducing iTunes tracks, a federal appellate panel in New York ruled Wednesday.

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• 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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