- 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 ...
- SEC Charges Against Ex-Owner Of 'Ebony' Shouldn't Hinder Relaunch
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Wednesday, September 22, 2021
The Securities and Exchange Commission this week charged several people, including the former owner of Ebony,with raising money for marijuana businesses and using the funds for other purposes. The wor ...
- Twitter To Pay $809 Million To Settle Investor Claims Over User Metrics
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, September 20, 2021
If approved by the court, the settlement will resolve a class-action claim that Twitter misled investors in 2015. ...
- Judge Sides With Instagram In Copyright Fight Over Embedding Tool
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, September 20, 2021
A federal judge in California threw out claims by photographers who alleged Instagram's embedding tool enabled outside publishers to infringe copyright. ...
- Judge Orders Locast To Permanently Shut Down
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 16, 2021
A federal judge on Wednesday prohibited Locast from resuming its service, which transmitted television programs over the internet. ...
- Publicis Health Urges Court To Toss Opioid-Related Deceptive Advertising Suit
MAD, Steve McClellan - Thursday, September 16, 2021
The agency, which worked for pharma company Purdue, argues in a motion-to-dismiss filing that suit is without merit. ...
- Court Ruling In Nunes Suit May Shape Law On Reporter Tweets
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Friday, September 17, 2021
A federal judge in northern Iowa last year dismissed Nunes' case, ruling the article wasn't defamatory. ...
- Court Revives Devin Nunes' Defamation Lawsuit Over A Tweet
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 15, 2021
A federal appellate court on Wednesday revived Rep. Devin Nunes' claim that he was defamed when journalist Ryan Lizza tweeted out a link to an Esquire article he authored. ...
