- North Dakota's Proposed Opt-In Privacy Law Needs Overhaul, Ad Industry Argues
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, January 26, 2021
"North Dakota should not adopt a one-size fits all consent requirement for the sale of protected data," the Association of National Advertisers, American Association of Advertising Agencies, Interactive Advertising Burea ...
- Court Won't Revive Journalist's Lawsuit Against Twitter
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, January 25, 2021
A California appellate court has refused to revive Canadian journalist Meghan Murphy's claims that she was wrongly suspended from Twitter for allegedly violating its "hateful conduct" policy by misgendering peo ...
- TikTok Ban Raises 'Constitutional Alarms,' Watchdogs Say
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, January 25, 2021
The government's attempt to ban TikTok should "ring constitutional alarms," the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation are telling a feder ...
- Supreme Court Urged To Preserve Ruling Against Trump Over Twitter Blocks
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, January 22, 2021
The Supreme Court should leave in place a lower court's ruling that former President Trump violated the First Amendment by blocking critics on Twitter, a free speech advocacy group arg ...
- Privacy Bill Moves Forward In Washington State
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, January 22, 2021
Lawmakers in Washington state have advanced a privacy bill that would require companies to obtain people's opt-in consent before drawing on "sensitive" data for ad targeting. ...
- DDB Chicago Slapped With $100 Million Lawsuit Over Army Contract
MAD, Steve McClellan - Friday, January 22, 2021
At issue is a complaint by a small minority-owned New York agency, Hero Group, which claims in court papers DDB breached an agreement to subcontract to it a portion ...
- BOTS Catches Bots: FTC Uses Law To Nab Concert Cyber Scalpers
Marketing Daily, P.J. Bednarski - Friday, January 22, 2021
FTC settled 3 cases against ticket brokers using sophisticated technology to bypass Ticketmaster safeguards and scalp thousands of tickets. ...
- Amazon Doesn't Have To Host Parler, Judge Rules
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, January 21, 2021
Amazon isn't required to host "the kind of abusive, violent content at issue in this case, particularly in light of the recent riots at the U.S. Capitol," U.S. District Cou ...
- Battle Over Trump's Twitter Blocks Could Still Reach Supreme Court
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Donald Trump is no longer president, and can no longer tweet from his @realDonaldTrump account, but a legal battle over his use of Twitter could still reach the Supreme Co ...
- Former Google Engineer Anthony Levandowski Among Trump's Long LIst Of Pardons
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Before leaving office, President Trump released a long list of pardons. Among them was Anthony Levandowski, former Google engineer who pleaded guilty to stealing technology related to self-driving cars before becomi ...
- FTC Chairman Simons To Step Down
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, January 19, 2021
FTC Chairman Joe Simons, who has led the agency since May 2018, will exit at the end of the month. ...
- Presidency Lost: No Cambridge Analytica
Marketing Politics Weekly, Ed DeNicola - Wednesday, January 20, 2021
What would have happened if Cambridge Analytica had not folded in 2018 and had worked on Trump's re-election campaign? Would the outcome have been different? ...
- Supreme Court Must Repeal Newspaper-Broadcast Ownership Ban
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Wednesday, January 20, 2021
The lawsuit, "Federal Communications Commission v. Prometheus Radio Project," centers on the agency's move in 2017 to relax rules on broadcaster ownership. ...
- What You Need To Do Under CAN-SPAM: A Refresher
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, January 19, 2021
New state privacy laws are limited in scope. But the CAM-SPAM Act of 2003 applies everywhere in the U.S. Here is a rundown on what CAN-SPAM requires of email marketers.&n ...
- Influencers Urge Appeals Court To Allow TikTok To Continue Operating
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, January 18, 2021
President Trump's planned TikTok ban would harm people who post content to the service for profit, three influencers tell appeals court. ...
- Rep. Boebert Sued For Violating 1st Amendment By Blocking Critic On Twitter
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, January 18, 2021
Former Colorado state lawmaker Brianna Buentello says she was blocked on Twitter by Rep. Lauren Boebert after calling for her recall on January 6. ...
- Free Local Broadcast Streaming Portal Locast Now Has 2.3M Registered Users, 26 Markets
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, January 18, 2021
The nonprofit, which is being sued by TV broadcasters, just added Madison, Wisconsin. ...
- Parler Was Suspended Over Posts Inciting Violence, Amazon Tells Judge
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 13, 2021
"Parler was used to incite, organize, and coordinate the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol," Amazon writes. ...
- Google Hit With Antitrust Suit By Online Video Platform Rumble
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, January 12, 2021
"By unfairly rigging its search algorithms such that YouTube is the first-listed links 'above the fold' on its search results page, Google, through its search engine, was able to wrongful ...
- Parler Sues Amazon Over Takedown
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, January 11, 2021
In a lawsuit filed Monday, Parler says Amazon is violating antitrust laws by "severely restraining commerce in the microblogging services market." ...
- Judge Sides With YouTube In 'Censorship' Suit By LGBT Content Creators
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, January 11, 2021
Siding with Google, a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender YouTube content creators who said the company violated their First Amendment rights by "censorin ...
- Job Seekers Settle Battle With Amazon And T-Mobile Over Age-Targeted Facebook Ads
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 6, 2021
A group of job seekers and the Communications Workers of America Union have settled a 2017 lawsuit alleging that Amazon and T-Mobile used Facebook's tools to illegally prevent older worke ...
- Twitter And Facebook Lock Trump Accounts After Mob Invades Capitol
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 6, 2021
Twitter on Wednesday said it removed several tweets by President Trump and locked his account, hours after a mob of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. Facebook also locked t ...
- Google Must Face Claims That It Overcharged For Pay-Per-Click Ads
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, January 5, 2021
A federal appellate court has revived a class-action complaint alleging that Google overcharged pay-per-click advertisers by reneging on a promise to discount some ads, and failing to limit ads ...
- 'New York Post' Source Sues Twitter Over Hunter Biden Story
Publishers Daily, Sara Guaglione - Tuesday, December 29, 2020
A tabloid story published before the presidential election claimed documents from Biden's hard drive showed he was involved with dealings in Ukraine. ...
- Why Web Freedom Won't Be The Same After COVID-19
Media Insider, Steven Rosenbaum - Monday, December 28, 2020
"I do not want the government to be the ones to decide what should or shouldn't be posted online," said one participant in a panel about platform legislation. ...
- Antitrust Suit Against Google Supports Publisher Complaints
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Monday, December 28, 2020
Publishers were harmed when Google's method of "dynamic allocation" of online bids for digital ad space drove down prices. ...
- Judge Throws Out Children's Privacy Claims Against YouTube, Channel Operators
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, December 22, 2020
A federal judge has dismissed claims that YouTube, Hasbro, the Cartoon Network and other companies violated children's privacy by allegedly tracking them in order to serve them with targeted ...
- COVID Stimulus Bill Increases Criminal Penalties For Streaming Piracy
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, December 22, 2020
The "Protecting Lawful Streaming Act" makes it a felony to operate a commercial service that's primarily designed to stream movies, tv shows, live sports and other material that infringes copyri ...
- 'Watch' Out: This New Escapist TV Show Is A Waste Of Time
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Wednesday, December 23, 2020
"The Watch" is one of those graphic-novel-like representations of some future or parallel world in which civilization is decidedly down in the dumps. ...
