- Zoom Urges Judge To Dismiss Lawsuit Over 'Zoombombing,' Data Sharing, And Encryption
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, December 4, 2020
Videoconferencing app Zoom, which surged in popularity this year, has asked a judge to throw out a potential class-action lawsuit alleging wide-ranging security and privacy lapses. ...
- Facebook Sued For 'Weaponizing' Consumer Data To Squelch Competition
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Saturday, December 5, 2020
Two Facebook users have brought an antitrust lawsuit accusing the company of drawing on consumer data in order to either acquire potential rivals, or copy their products. ...
- Newspaper Group Supports Privacy Regulations Aimed At 'Most Harmful' Companies
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 3, 2020
"We do need more privacy regulation in the United States," David Chavern, CEO and president of the News Media Alliance, tells MediaPost. ...
- Senate Committee Approves FCC Nominee Who Wants To Regulate Social Media
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, December 2, 2020
The Senate Commerce Committee Wednesday voted 14-12 along party lines to advance the nomination of controversial telecom lawyer Nathan Simington to the FCC. ...
- LinkedIn Sued Over Incorrect Ad Metrics
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, December 2, 2020
"LinkedIn has systematically inflated ad metrics in its favor, which has enabled it to overstate the quality of its audiences, the quality of its ad inventory, and the engagement fr ...
- Nonprofits Challenge Cargill's 'Independent Family Farmers' Claims
Marketing Daily, Steve Ellwanger - Tuesday, December 1, 2020
"Cargill is egregiously misleading consumers... because the Products are in fact produced on large, corporate-controlled factory farms," complaint states. ...
- New Mexico Wants Appeals Court To Revive Privacy Claims Against Google
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, November 30, 2020
New Mexico's top law enforcement official has appealed a trial judge's dismissal of a lawsuit claiming the company violated students' privacy rights with its educational apps. ...
- Supreme Court Wrestles With Anti-Hacking Law
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, November 30, 2020
The government's interpretation of a decades-old anti-hacking law "would brand most Americans criminals on a daily basis," a lawyer representing a former police sergeant told the Supreme Court Monday. ...
- COVID-19, Black Lives Matter Are Double Whammy For 'Blue Bloods'
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Tuesday, December 1, 2020
One can hardly put on a big-city cop drama this fall and somehow evade these subjects. ...
- Facebook Asks Supreme Court To Decide Whether Tracking Violates Wiretap Law
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, November 27, 2020
Facebook is urging the Supreme Court to take up a long-running dispute about whether tracking logged-out users via the "Like" button violates a law restricting the interception of online communicati ...
- Amazon Steps Up Actions To Tackle Sale Of Counterfeit Goods On Its Platform In U.S., Europe
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Amazon this week launched several initiatives to crack down on trademark issues and counterfeiting across its marketplace. ...
- Netflix, Chooseco Resolve Battle Over 'Bandersnatch'
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Netflix and Chooseco have settled a high-profile dispute over use of the phrase "choose your own adventure" in the interactive video program "Black Mirror: Bandersnatch." ...
- Facebook Seeks Dismissal Of BrandTotal's Counterclaims In Battle Over Data
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, November 24, 2020
"Facebook did nothing more than enforce its own terms," the social networking service says in papers filed Monday with U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Spero in San Francisco. ...
- Fox News Settles With Parents Of Slain Democratic Aide
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Joel and Mary Rich filed a federal lawsuit in 2018 accusing the network of fabricating a conspiracy story about their son Seth and Wikileaks to drive ratings, and seeking unspecifi ...
- Appellate Court Turns Away AT&T In Battle Over DirecTV Robocalls
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, November 23, 2020
Handing AT&T a defeat, a federal appellate court on Monday refused to reconsider a prior ruling that requires DirecTV to face a lawsuit alleging it violated a consumer protection l ...
- Trump Reportedly Will Approve Confederate Name Removals -- If Section 230 Repealed
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, November 20, 2020
President Trump reportedly will approve legislation to remove Confederate leaders names' from military bases if the bill also repeals Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the media law th ...
- FTC Wants To Question Stephen Bannon Over Cambridge Analytica
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, November 20, 2020
The agency argues it needs Bannon's testimony in order to determine whether Facebook users' data was shared with any other companies. ...
- Apple To Pay $113 Million To Resolve Throttling Probe
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Apple has agreed to pay $113 million to resolve a probe by state attorneys general into allegations that it slowed down older iPhones to prevent their batteries from draining t ...
- Judge Sides Against Apple In 'Faceprint' Battle
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Illinois consumers can proceed with a lawsuit alleging that Apple's Photos app violates an Illinois biometric privacy law ...
- Twitter CEO Suggests Giving Users More Control Over Algorithms
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Facebook's and Twitter's CEOs both said at a Senate hearing Tuesday that they support reforming Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act -- the 26-year-old media law that protects onli ...
- Facebook Data Breach Settlement Moves Forward
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, November 17, 2020
A federal judge has granted preliminary approval to Facebook's settlement of a class-action lawsuit over a security lapse that enabled hackers to steal 30 million users' information. ...
- Signs Of Hope In Season Two Of Sad Series About Prison Lawyer
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Leading actor Nicholas Pinnock is still the best feature of the ABC prison-lawyer series called "For Life." ...
- Apple Hit With Privacy Complaints In Germany And Spain
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, November 16, 2020
A privacy group led by prominent activist Max Schrems has filed complaints against Apple in Germany and Spain, for allegedly enabling app developers to track iPhone users for ad purpo ...
- NaviStone, Harriet Carter Argue That Consumers Consented To Data Collection By Not Blocking Cookies
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, November 16, 2020
Visitors to Harriet Carter Gifts' website had no "reasonable expectation of privacy" in data they generated because they failed to block cookies, Harriet Carter and marketing tech company NaviStone ar ...
- Big Tech Lobbies Biden To End Trump's Immigration Policies
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, November 16, 2020
Critics say the immigration policies make it more difficult for skilled workers to acquire visas and require companies that hire "high-skilled" foreign workers with H-1B visas to pay them clo ...
- White House Appeals Injunction That Prevents TikTok Ban
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, November 13, 2020
The White House is appealing an order issued earlier this month that prohibits the government from effectively shutting down the social video app TikTok in the U.S. ...
- California Mayor Can't Shake Suit Over Facebook Blocks
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, November 13, 2020
A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that the mayor of Irvine, California violated a critic's First Amendment rights by blocking him on Facebook. ...
- Facebook Must Face Lawsuit Over Ad Clicks From Fake Accounts
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, November 12, 2020
Siding against Facebook, a federal judge has ruled that the Arkansas company dotStrategy can proceed with a class-action complaint alleging that Facebook charged marketers for clicks originating from "fake" accou ...
- Many Online Companies Extend CCPA Rights Nationwide, Survey Finds
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, November 12, 2020
Many businesses in the online ad ecosystem are extending rights set out by California's privacy law to consumers in all jurisdictions, a survey released Thursday by the IAB suggests. ...
- Firm Appeals GDPR Penalty, Fine Is Reduced By Millions: Report
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, November 13, 2020
1&1 Telecom will pay EUR900,000 instead of EUR9.6 million, a German appeals court rules. ...
