- Court Sides With YouTube In 'Censorship' Battle With 'Misandry Today'
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, April 16, 2021
Siding with Google, a federal appellate court refused to reinstate a lawsuit by commentator Bob Lewis, who claimed the company violated his rights by demonetizing some of the videos ...
- Google Misled Consumers Over Data Location Setting, Australian Court Finds
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, April 16, 2021
Although Google denies any wrongdoing in the way it configures location settings, Australia's Competition and Consumer Commission believes otherwise. ...
- Altria, Juul Face RICO Claim, FTC Complaint
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Steve Ellwanger - Thursday, April 15, 2021
The FTC alleges that Altria and Juul eliminated competition in the e-cigarette space in violation of antitrust laws. ...
- Business Groups, TechFreedom Urge Court To Nix California Net Neutrality Law
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, April 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 ...
- Facebook Wants Draft Versions Of FTC Settlement To Remain Confidential
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, April 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. ...
- Kids' Advertising Game-Changer: App Data-Collection Settlements Finalized
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Collectively, the settlements span "tens of thousands" of child-directed gaming apps and implement "holistic protections" against personal data collection and behaviorally targeted ads for kids under
13. ...
- Twitter User Presses Claims Over Use Of Phone Numbers For Ad Targeting
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, April 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 cou ...
- Texas-Led Antitrust Case Misunderstands Online Ads, Google Tells Court
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, April 9, 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 ...
- Google Accidentally Reveals Sealed Allegations In Texas-Led Antitrust Suit
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Sunday, April 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 ...
- Texas Man Plotted To Blow Up Amazon Web Services Data Center, FBI Charges
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, April 12, 2021
The man allegedly alluded to the plan on a militia group forum, and targeted the Virginia facility because he believed it services federal agencies. ...
- Facebook, Zuckerberg Get Slapped With Lawsuit From Muslim Advocates
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, April 8, 2021
Muslim Advocates on Thursday filed a consumer protection lawsuit against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, CFO Sheryl Sandberg and others at the company, demanding that the social network begin taking anti-Musl ...
- Supreme Court Won't Revive Right-Wing Activists' Lawsuit Against Tech Platforms
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, April 5, 2021
In a defeat for right-wing activists Laura Loomer and Freedom Watch, the Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider reviving a lawsuit accusing Google, Twitter, Facebook and Apple of conspiri ...
- Google Presses Judge To Throw Out Larceny Claim In Chrome Privacy Battle
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, April 2, 2021
Google is asking a federal judge to reconsider her recent decision allowing Chrome users to proceed with a claim that the company engaged in larceny by collecting their personal informati ...
- Facebook Prevails In Robotexting Battle
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, April 1, 2021
Handing Facebook a victory, the Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously reversed a lower court ruling that would have required the company to face a lawsuit over unwanted text messages. ...
- Google Play Apps Still Unlawfully Collect Children's Data, Advocates Tell FTC
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Google continues to mislead parents by representing that apps on the Play Store intended for young children under the age of 13 comply with a federal law regarding children's privac ...
- BrandTotal 'Recklessly' Built Data-Harvesting Business, Facebook Tells Court
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 29, 2021
"BrandTotal developed, promoted, and distributed several browser extensions and mobile applications, all programmed and designed to automatically scrape user and advertising-related data (without Facebook's permission)," the company says papers fil ...
- Congress To Tech Leaders: Self-Regulation Is Over
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, March 26, 2021
Legislators on both sides of the aisle demonstrated rare bipartisanship in slamming the CEOs of Facebook, Twitter and Google about disinformation, privacy and other issues during a House committee heari ...
- Dominion Voting Systems Files $1.6B Suit Against Fox News
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, March 26, 2021
Dominion contends that Fox News "endorsed, repeated, and broadcast a series of verifiably false yet devastating lies" about the voting tech company, "severely injuring" Dominion. Fox said it is pro ...
- Senate Bill Requires Transparency About High-Volume, Third-Party Sellers On Online Marketplaces
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, March 26, 2021
The INFORM Consumers Act mandates that email addresses and other contact information must be revealed. ...
- Don't Fight Privacy -- Embrace It
MediaDailyNews, George Simpson - Thursday, March 25, 2021
With new privacy legislation set to be introduced in Florida, trade associations are fighting back with the usual stupid arguments. ...
- 'New York Times' Blurs Fact And Opinion In Libel Defense
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Friday, March 26, 2021
Both stories covered a Project Veritas video about allegedly illegal voting practices in the congressional district of Rep. Ilhan Omar and the Somali-American community of Minneapolis. ...
- Zuckerberg Proposes Congress Should Limit Web Companies' Legal Protections
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will suggest that Congress revamp Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act by linking the legal protections afforded to web companies to their efforts to ta ...
- Attorneys General Urge Facebook And Twitter To Ban Anti-Vaxxers
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Facebook and Twitter should more aggressively combat misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, 12 attorneys general say in letters to the companies. ...
- Ad Industry Asks Florida Lawmakers To Reject Privacy Bill
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 24, 2021
A fast-advancing Florida privacy bill that would give consumers the right to opt out of targeted advertising is drawing opposition from the ad industry. ...
- Supreme Court Lets Stand Anti-Facebook Ruling In Battle Over Tracking
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 23, 2021
The Supreme Court has rejected Facebook's request to intervene in a closely watched privacy battle over online tracking. ...
- Justice Department Sides With YouTube In Fight Over Section 230
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Siding with YouTube, the Biden administration is urging a federal judge to reject an attempt by video creators to invalidate Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. ...
- Biden Taps Antitrust Maven Lina Khan For FTC
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 22, 2021
Khan, a professor at Columbia Law School, is among the most prominent critics of Big Tech. ...
- Judge Blasts Media For Supposed Anti-GOP Bias, Wants To Gut Libel Protections
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 19, 2021
"New considerations have arisen over the last 50 years that make the New York Times decision ... a threat to American Democracy. It must go," Circuit Judge Laurence Silberman wr ...
- Amazon And Microsoft Must Face Claims Over Biometric Privacy
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 18, 2021
Illinois residents may proceed with a lawsuit alleging that Amazon and Microsoft violated a state biometric privacy law by amassing a database of fingerprints, a federal judge has ruled. ...
- Google Suffers Another Defeat In Privacy Battle Over Chrome
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 18, 2021
Siding against Google, a federal judge has refused to dismiss a privacy lawsuit claiming the Chrome browser collects personal info from logged-out users including their IP addresses, identifiers stored ...
