WENDY DAVIS

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• Biden Administration Still Weighing TikTok And WeChat Bans in Digital News Daily on 04/14/2021
  

  "New and incoming leadership at the Department of Commerce and other interested agencies need additional time to consider potential options," lawyers for the Dept. of Justice wrote in reports filed this week with appeals courts.

• Facebook Wants Draft Versions Of FTC Settlement To Remain Confidential in Digital News Daily on 04/13/2021
  

  "These draft settlement documents, replete with proposed revisions, reflect Facebook's confidential commercial information," the company writes in papers filed late last week with the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals.

• Business Groups, TechFreedom Urge Court To Nix California Net Neutrality Law in Digital News Daily on 04/13/2021
  

  "The very concept of state regulation of data use is problematic," the free-market group TechFreedom writes. "Unless states apply the same rules to data that passes through their borders -- and if left to their own devices, they won't -- chaos will ensue."

• Twitter User Presses Claims Over Use Of Phone Numbers For Ad Targeting in Digital News Daily on 04/12/2021
  

  "Twitter did not create, implement, or execute systems that honored users' designations as to use of their telephone numbers," lawyers for Washington state resident Darlin Gray say in new court papers.

• Facebook Says BrandTotal Not Entitled To Gather Ad-Related Data in Digital News Daily on 04/12/2021
  

  Facebook is telling a federal judge that its ability to protect users from scraping depends on its power to prevent companies like BrandTotal from collecting data from the site.

• Google Accidentally Reveals Sealed Allegations In Texas-Led Antitrust Suit in Digital News Daily on 04/11/2021
  

  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton reportedly alleged that Google operated a program named "Project Bernanke," which drew on historical data in its ad exchange to give its ad platform an advantage.

• FTC And States Press To Proceed With Antitrust Claims Against Facebook in Digital News Daily on 04/09/2021
  

  Facebook's alleged monopolization of the social networking market enabled the company to decrease users' privacy protections and increase the number of ads shown to them, 48 attorneys general argue in papers filed Thursday with U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg in Washington, D.C.

• Texas-Led Antitrust Case Misunderstands Online Ads, Google Tells Court in Digital News Daily on 04/09/2021
  

  "The government intervention sought by plaintiffs would do significant harm to the many businesses, large and small, who choose to use Google's effective advertising services, with a ripple effect of unintended consequences," Google tells a federal judge.

• Texas AG Violates First Amendment By Blocking Critics On Twitter, Group Says in PolicyBlog on 04/08/2021
  

  In a lawsuit filed Thursday, an advocacy group says Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton engages in viewpoint-based discrimination by blocking Twitter users who criticize him or his policies.

• YouTube Urges Judge To Throw Out QAnon Lawsuit Over Video Takedowns in Digital News Daily on 04/08/2021
  

  Members of the right-wing conspiracy group QAnon lack grounds to claim that Google violated their First Amendment rights by taking down YouTube videos, the company argues.

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• 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.

• 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.

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