- News Organizations Line Up Against Devin Nunes Lawsuit
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Monday, October 25, 2021
The issue is a reporter tweeting an 'Esquire' story after the congressman had filed a lawsuit. Nunes is claiming defamation. ...
- Runner Sues Nike, Former Coach For Alleged Abuse
Around the Net In Brand Marketing, Tanya Gazdik - Thursday, October 21, 2021
Distance runner Mary Cain has filed a $20 million lawsuit against her former coach Alberto Salazar and Nike. “Cain, 25, had a promising career, becoming in 2013 the youngest Americ ...
- Swiss Court Rejects Idea That ESPs Are Telecommunications Providers
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, October 22, 2021
The firm is relieved of data retention and surveillance requirements that govern telcos. ...
- Google Reportedly Charges More Than Twice Its Rivals In Ad Deals
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, October 22, 2021
For each ad transaction served across the Google exchange, the company takes on average between two and four times as much as the fees charged by rival digital ad exchang ...
- Senate Bill Threatens Web Companies With Lawsuits Over Recommendations
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 20, 2021
The "Protecting Americans from Dangerous Algorithms Act" would allow people to sue social media platforms that algorithmically amplify or recommend user-created speech "directly relevant" to violations of civil rights law ...
- D.C. AG Tries To Hold Zuckerberg Personally Responsible In Cambridge Analytica Lawsuit
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, October 22, 2021
D.C. AG adds CEO to suit against Facebook filed in 2018, alleging Zuckerberg participated in Facebook's decisions to allow Cambridge Analytica to improperly use profile data on 85 million Face ...
- Judge Dismisses QAnon Suit Against YouTube Over Takedowns
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Siding with Google, a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by members of the right-wing conspiracy group QAnon who claimed the company violated the First Amendment by removing their vide ...
- Chipotle Settles Lawsuit Pertaining To Overtime
Around the Net In Brand Marketing, Tanya Gazdik - Thursday, October 7, 2021
Pending court approval, Chipotle has agreed to pay $8 million to settle a 2012 lawsuit alleging it misclassified management trainees as exempt from overtime. The agreement will resolve claims th ...
- Judge Sides With Google In Battle Over 'Passive' Android Data Transfers
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 7, 2021
Google has defeated a lawsuit by Android users who claimed the company misappropriated their cell phone data allotments by allegedly collecting app-related data. ...
- Escape Hatch: Making It Easy To Cancel D2C Subscriptions
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Friday, October 8, 2021
A new German law would require a visible "termination" button. Should that be the norm in the U.S.? ...
- Google To Settle Long-Running Privacy Battle Over Data Leakage
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Google has agreed to settle an 11-year-old privacy battle over allegations that it leaked users' personal data by including their search queries in "referer headers." ...
- Facebook To Seek New Hearing In Battle With News Anchor Over Dating Ads
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Facebook will ask the 3rd Circuit to reconsider its decision to allow Karen Hepp to sue the company for misappropriating her image by hosting dating ads with her photo. ...
- Google Presses Court To Reject Ohio Push To Regulate Search Results
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Google is pressing an Ohio judge to throw out a lawsuit by Attorney General Dave Yost, who is attempting to subject the company to common-carrier rules that would regulate sear ...
- Former FTC Technologist Soltani To Head California Privacy Agency
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 4, 2021
Privacy advocate and technologist Ashkan Soltani has been tapped to serve as executive director of California's new privacy protection agency. ...
- Awaiting Vaping Verdict, Altria Faces Challenge To iQos Tobacco Devices
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Steve Ellwanger - Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Internat'l Trade Commish said iQos infringed upon two patents owned by British American Tobacco's Reynolds American Inc. subsidiary. ...
- Macy's Aims To Keep Amazon Off Sign
Around the Net In Brand Marketing, Tanya Gazdik - Sunday, October 3, 2021
Macy’s has
filed an injunction to keep Amazon’s logo off the sign next to its Herald Square flagship in New York. Since the early 1960s, Macy's has placed a billboa ...
- Don't Treat Billboard Advertisers Like 'Second Class Citizens,' OAAA Tells Supreme Court
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 1, 2021
The trade group Out of Home Advertising Association of America is siding with two ad companies that are urging the Supreme Court to invalidate Texas restrictions on digital billboards. ...
- Trump Seeks Order Requiring Twitter To Restore His Account
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Saturday, October 2, 2021
Trump's lawyers argue that his continued absence from Twitter could hurt the Republican Party's chances of winning future elections. ...
- Disney, Scarlett Johannson Settle 'Black Widow' Dispute
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, October 1, 2021
The lawsuit threatened to have potentially broad implications for entertainment companies' changing business models, as they try to juggle streaming services and the traditional cinema box-office
channel. ...
- Facebook Responsible For Sex Trafficking, Victim Tells Supreme Court
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 30, 2021
Lawyers for a sex-trafficking victim say judges across the country have misinterpreted Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. ...
- SEC Details How Fraud Went Undetected In Parts Of WPP Network For Years
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Wednesday, September 29, 2021
An SEC order issued last week shed light on some of the shenanigans that were going on, including the case of an Indian agency subsidiary that JWT (now part ...
- Right-Wing Advocacy Group Urges Supreme Court To Nix Texas Billboard Restrictions
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Americans for Prosperity argues that the ordinance should be struck down as a "content-based" restriction on speech. ...
- Ad Industry Says $1 Billion For FTC Should Be Accompanied By National Privacy Law
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, September 27, 2021
"The U.S. needs both a strong privacy regulator and a rational, comprehensive national consumer privacy law," Leigh Freund, CEO and president of the self-regulatory organization Network Advertising Initiative, stated Mon ...
- SEC Fines WPP $19 Million For Violating Anti-Bribery, Accounting Control Regs
MAD, Steve McClellan - Friday, September 24, 2021
WPP issued a statement noting violations occurred during the Sorrell administration and that new compliance measures have been put in place. ...
- Court Sides Against Facebook In Battle Over News Anchor Karen Hepp's Photo
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 23, 2021
A federal appellate panel has revived the news anchor's claim that Facebook violated her right to control commercial use of her image by hosting a dating ad with her ph ...
- Google Seeks To Settle EU's Latest Advertising Antitrust Probe
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, September 24, 2021
Google is hoping to persuade the European Commission to engage in talks to settle a probe into alleged anticompetitive data practices in its digital advertising business, reports Reuters. ...
- Facebook Hit With Defamation Suit Over Fact-Checks
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 23, 2021
Journalist John Stossel alleged in a lawsuit that he was defamed by Facebook's fact-checks, which flagged one video he posted as "misleading" and a second as "partly false." ...
- Tech Groups Sues Texas Over Law Banning 'Censorship' By Social Media Platforms
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 22, 2021
The law "will prohibit platforms from taking action to protect themselves, their users, advertisers, and the public more generally from harmful and objectionable matter," NetChoice and the Computer & Communicatio ...
- Texas Curbs On Billboards Violate First Amendment, Companies Tell Supreme Court
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Two ad companies want to convert non-digital outdoor ads to digital ones on 83 billboards in Austin, and claim in a lawsuit that the distinction between on-premises and off-premises digit ...
- Pennsylvania Resident Presses To Revive Privacy Claim Against NaviStone
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Pennsylvana resident Ashley Popa is asking an appellate court to revive her class-action privacy complaint against ad-tech company NaviStone over its tracking technology, which allegedly collected data from her aft ...
