- EU Court Sides With Apple, Vacates $15 Billion Tax Bill
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 15, 2020
Handing Apple a victory, a European appeals court vacated a ruling that would have required the company to pay Ireland around $15 billion in back taxes. ...
- Google Hit With Fresh Privacy Lawsuit
Around the Net In Digital, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, July 15, 2020
After mobile consumers opt out of sharing information, Google continues to track user activity through hundreds of thousands of apps, a fresh lawsuit claims. ...
- Walmart Hit With CCPA Lawsuit Over Alleged Data Breach
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 14, 2020
A San Francisco resident who says his personal data was stolen from Walmart by hackers is suing the company for allegedly violating California's new privacy law. ...
- Quibi Wins First Battle In Patent Lawsuit: Turnstyle Injunction Denied
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, July 15, 2020
As part of a patent suit filed against Quibi by Eko, a judge has denied Eko's request to enjoin Quibi from using its adaptable-viewing Turnstyle feature. The judge did not ...
- Google Wants Appeals Court To Shut Down Privacy Suit Over 'Vanity Searches'
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 13, 2020
Google is asking a judge for permission to immediately appeal his recent decision allowing search users to proceed claims that the company wrongly transmitted their queries to publishers. ...
- Salesforce And Hanna Andersson To Settle Data Breach Lawsuit
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 13, 2020
If the settlement is finalized, it will resolve one of the first lawsuits in California to allege a violation of the state's new Consumer Privacy Act. ...
- Supreme Court Urged To Limit Anti-Hacking Law
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 10, 2020
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Mozilla and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are among a broad array of watchdogs and outside companies asking the Supreme Court to limit ...
- California Means Business: How To Cope With The CCPA (And CPRA)
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Friday, July 10, 2020
The CCPA may be the first of a patchwork of state privacy laws that will be difficult to obey. ...
- Bankruptcy Brawl: DatabaseUSA Chapter 11 Clouds Payment Picture
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Thursday, July 9, 2020
At issue is a $11.2 million judgment won by Infogroup against the marketing and email firm. ...
- Microsoft Fights COVID-19 Cyber Scam
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Microsoft had filed suit last year against several John Does, alleging cyber fraud. Apparently they are back. ...
- Bose User Wants Appeals Court To Revive Wiretapping Claims
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 1, 2020
An Illinois resident wants an appellate court to revive claims that headphone manufacturer Bose violated the federal wiretap law by allegedly disclosing information about the music, radio programs and podcasts ...
- California Begins Enforcing New Privacy Law
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 1, 2020
"The website of every business covered by the law must now post a link on its homepage that says 'Do Not Sell My Personal Information,'" California Attorney General Xavier Becerra ...
- Booking.com Entitled To Trademark, Supreme Court Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Online reservation service Booking.com can trademark its name, even though the word "booking" is generic, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. ...
- Facebook To Seek Supreme Court Intervention In Privacy Battle Over 'Like' Button
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Facebook plans to ask the Supreme Court to rule that tracking logged-out web users via the "Like" button doesn't violate the federal wiretap law. ...
- Facebook Must Face Wiretap Claims, Court Confirms
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, June 26, 2020
Handing a defeat to Facebook, a federal appellate court has refused to revisit its earlier ruling that the company may have violated federal and state privacy laws by tracking people ...
- Analytics Company hiQ Urges Supreme Court To Stay Out Of Scraping Battle With LinkedIn
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, June 25, 2020
hiQ Labs is asking the Supreme Court to leave in place an injunction that requires LinkedIn to allow its pages to be scraped. ...
- Data On The Up And Up: Infogroup-Office Depot Case Revives Copyright Issue
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Friday, June 26, 2020
Brands should copyright their email lists. Surely, it takes creativity and "sweat of the brow" to build one. ...
- Court Finds Johnson & Johnson Liable For Cancerous Talcum Powder
Around the Net In Brand Marketing, Tanya Gazdik - Wednesday, June 24, 2020
A Missouri appeals court ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $2.1 billion in damages to women who blamed their ovarian cancers on the company’s talcum products, including its baby powder. ...
- Republican Senators Claim 'Warrant-Proof' Encryption Jeopardizes National Security
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Facebook responds: "Rolling back this vital protection will make us all less safe, not more." ...
- Judge Reinstates Photographer's Copyright Claim Against Mashable
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Reversing herself, a federal judge in New York reinstated a photographer's claims that Mashable infringed her copyright by embedding a photo from her public Instagram account. ...
- Twitter Defeats Devin Nunes' Lawsuit Over Parody Accounts
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Rep. Devin Nunes' can't proceed with a lawsuit against Twitter over allegedly libelous tweets by the anonymous creator of the parody accounts "Devin Nunes' Mom" ...
- California Judge Sides With Privacy Advocates On Ballot Initiative Deadline
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 22, 2020
Advocates behind a proposed privacy initiative in California have scored a courtroom victory in their attempt to secure a spot on the November ballot. ...
- Appeals Court Strikes Down California Age Censorship Law
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, June 19, 2020
A California law requiring entertainment site IMDb.com to hide actors' ages at their request violates free speech principles, a federal appellate court ruled Friday. ...
- Black YouTube Users Accuse Google Of Restricting Videos Based On Race
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Sunday, June 21, 2020
Four black content creators have sued YouTube for allegedly engaging in race-based discrimination by restricting and de-monetizing videos that carry titles or tags like "black lives matter," "racism," and "white ...
- Andrew Yang Wants Dollars For Data
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Monday, June 22, 2020
The former Presidential candidate has launched the Data Dividend Project, which seeks to get consumers paid for use of their data. ...
- Google Sued Over Allegedly Deceptive Pine-Sol Ads
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, June 18, 2020
The false advertising lawsuit centers on a Google Shopping ad boasting that Pine-Sol kills "99.9% of germs." Twelve years ago, a federal judge said Google isn't responsible for fraudulent ads ...
- Fox Attorney Argues 'Tucker Carlson' Isn't News, Seeks Dismissal Of McDougal Slander Suit
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, June 18, 2020
A suit alleges Carlson's on-air remarks slandered Karen McDougal, one of the women who claim they had affairs with Trump. Fox News asserts the circumstances don't meet the actual malice ...
- Justice Department Plans To Weaken Protection For Internet Companies Including Google, YouTube, Facebook
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, June 17, 2020
The Justice Department plans to propose changes to a law that protects tech companies from being held liable for the content of people's posts on their platforms. ...
- Sweat Of the Brow? What The Gupta Copyright Verdict Means For Email List Owners
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, June 17, 2020
The decision, won by Infogroup against DatabaseUSA, could lessen the impact of the Supreme Court's Feist decision on the ground. ...
- Search Marketers Focusing More On Conversion And Revenue, Less On Ranking
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, June 16, 2020
About 10% more marketers are paying for higher visibility on Google this year vs. last. They're paying for Google Ads, Local Service Ads, and other programs, according to data released ...
