- DoJ Antitrust Suit Against Google Is Imminent: Report
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, September 4, 2020
Most Department of Justice lawyers working on the case opposed a September deadline pushed by DoJ officials, and some express concerns that Attorney General William Barr is pushing to fi ...
- Small Business Adventure: What Drives Owners -- And What Makes Them Anxious
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Friday, September 4, 2020
Future owners are more likely to say they will mix online and brick-and-mortar, BizFilings reports. ...
- DatabaseUSA Bankruptcy Plan Confirmation Delayed Until October
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, September 4, 2020
Creditor Infogroup will not be able to file a competing plan of reorganization during the delay period. ...
- Suit Accuses Yahoo Of Providing Dissident's Email Account To Chinese Officials
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Thursday, September 3, 2020
Yahoo is being sued by a survivor of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, who claims Yahoo gave his email account to party officials, enabling them to capture and imprison him f ...
- Trump's Social Media Order Aims To Weaponize FCC, Watchdog Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 1, 2020
"The President seeks to embroil the FCC in a political effort to coerce social media companies into moderating user-generated content only as the President sees fit," the Center for Democra ...
- Trump's Social Media Crackdown Violates Free Speech, Voter Groups Say
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, August 27, 2020
"It is unlawfully retaliatory and coercive, sending a clear and chilling message: question President Trump and face retribution from the entire Executive Branch," Rock the Vote and other groups s ...
- 'I Could Stand In The Middle Of The South Lawn And Shoot Holes In The People's House'
Red, White & Blog, Joe Mandese - Friday, August 28, 2020
The 2020 Republican National Convention ended the way the 2016 RNC did, with a lawless criminal being nominated the party's presidential candidate while in the process of breaking the ...
- Google Shares Data: Agencies Fear Personally Identifiable Information Is Included In Reports
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, August 27, 2020
Some agency reps thought they imagined it. Others said they reported it to Google, fearing it was a violation of revealing personally identifiable information (PII). ...
- Let's Hold Ad Platforms 'Strictly Liable' When They Sell Fraudulent Ads
Media Insider, Dave Morgan - Thursday, August 27, 2020
A ruling that Amazon is liable for products delivered to buyers has parallels to the way digital ad platforms operate. ...
- Google Seeks Dismissal Of Privacy Suit Alleging It Tracks 'Incognito' Users
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, August 21, 2020
"This is not a case where Google received data surreptitiously, much less deceitfully," Google argues in papers filed Thursday with U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose. ...
- TikTok To File Suit Against Trump, Possibly Today, As GOP Convention Kicks Off
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, August 24, 2020
TikTok will challenge Trump's executive order banning transactions with the platform and demanding that parent company ByteDance divest its U.S. TikTok operations. ...
- Facebook Elaborates On Its Data Portability Measures, Pushes For Legislation
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, August 21, 2020
Facebook is pushing for rules that make it easier for users to move media from the company's platform to a competing technology. ...
- Facebook's $650 Million 'Faceprint' Settlement Moves Forward
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, August 20, 2020
"The $650 million that will be awarded to the Illinois class is an impressive result both as an absolute number and relative to other class action settlements in privacy cases ...
- Trump Tells Supreme Court He Has Right To Block Critics
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, August 20, 2020
"Although President Trump is currently a public official, the @realDonaldTrump account belongs to him in his personal capacity, not his official one," the Justice Department argues in a petition seeki ...
- Weather Company Resolves Location Privacy Battle In Los Angeles
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, August 19, 2020
The IBM-owned company will now explicitly inform Weather Channel app downloaders that they can manually enter their locations in order to receive forecasts. ...
- Free Gmail And YouTube May Be At Risk In Australia, Google Warns
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Google has warned that free services like Gmail and YouTube may be at risk in Australia if a proposed law takes effect. The law would require Google and Facebook ...
- Facebook Sued For 'Censoring' Posts About Vaccines
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, August 18, 2020
A group founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has sued Facebook and fact-checkers, including the journalism school Poynter Institute, for allegedly disparaging and "censoring" posts about vaccines. ...
- Meredith's Lawsuit Against 'Sports Illustrated' Publisher Adds To Magazine's Woes
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Wednesday, August 19, 2020
The complaint should give the magazine's current owner another reason to re-evaluate its licensing agreement with TheMaven Inc. ...
- Lawsuit Claims Google Monopolizes App Distribution Market
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, August 17, 2020
"Google intends to eliminate consumer choice, foreclosing competition in mobile app distribution," Illinois resident Mary Carr alleges in a 71-page class-action complaint filed Sunday in federal
court. ...
- Amazon May Be Liable For Defective Marketplace Products, California Court Rules
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, August 14, 2020
Amazon has lost a battle in California over whether it can be held legally responsible for injuries caused by a defective product offered by outside vendors who sell through i ...
- Oracle And Salesforce Slammed With European Lawsuits Over Third-Party Cookie Use
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Friday, August 14, 2020
Oracle and Salesforce have been hit with lawsuits accusing them of using third-party cookies for tracking and ad targeting. The cases, filed the Netherlands and the UK, could result ...
- 'Family Friendly' Streaming Service VidAngel Appeals $62 Million Copyright Verdict
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, August 13, 2020
VidAngel, which offered a streaming service that allowed users to filter out nudity or violence from videos, says the jury's $62.4 million verdict is "out of kilter" with the copyrig ...
- Epic Games Sues Apple For Sidelining Fortnite On App Store
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, August 13, 2020
Before filing the complaint, Epic implemented its own payment processing system on the iOS version of Fortnite -- a clear violation of the App Store's rules. ...
- Joe Alexander's Suit Against DMA And 'Adweek' Is Tossed
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Thursday, August 13, 2020
Former Martin Agency Chief Creative Officer Joe Alexander had alleged the publication had engaged in a "conspiracy" to defame him, possibly in cahoots with Diet Madison Avenue or with peop ...
- Vocal California Advocacy Group Backs New Privacy Proposal
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, August 13, 2020
"Under Prop 24, a consumer can limit the use of their sensitive information to stop Uber from profiling them based on race, stop Spotify from utilizing their precise geo-location a ...
- Judge Sides With Facebook In Investor Lawsuit Over Privacy
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Facebook has defeated an investor lawsuit stemming revelations that the social networking platform allowed outside companies, including data consultancy Cambridge Analytica, to obtain personal information from as many as ...
- Google Hit With New Privacy Claims Over Audio Data
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, August 10, 2020
Google has never informed users that Google Home can be activated, record and/or transmit everything in a user's home even when the user does not use the activation phrase, a ...
- Google Makes Certain Words Taboo, Like 'Market Share' And 'Reach'
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, August 10, 2020
Alphabet and Google employees are being trained to assume every document will become public, so company execs are asking employees to avoid using certain words and phrases when communicating thin ...
- Judge Rules Movie Studios Can Now Buy Movie Theater Chains
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, August 10, 2020
In a super-competitive media world, the ruling makes sense. But is it too little, too late? ...
- Google 'Spying' On People's App Use, Lawsuit Claims
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, August 6, 2020
Google employees "spy" on smartphone users, collecting their sensitive data and information about their use of other companies' apps, New York resident Robert McCoy alleges in a new class-action compla ...
