- Judge Denies Class-Action Status To Advertiser Battling Facebook Over Fake Clicks
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, June 23, 2021
dotStrategy, which operates the ".buzz" domain registry, isn't entitled to class-action status in a lawsuit against Facebook over ad clicks from fake accounts, a judge ruled Tuesday. ...
- Florida Defends Social Media Law, Says Tech Companies Can Be Forced To Host Politicians
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 22, 2021
State officials argue that the new social media law law advances the goals of the First Amendment by attempting to prevent tech companies from suppressing speech. ...
- Court Revives Some Claims Against Social Media Platforms Over Terrorist Bombing
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 22, 2021
A federal appellate court Tuesday refused to revive lawsuits against Twitter, Google and Facebook over terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, but reinstated some claims against the companies ov ...
- FTC, Now Headed By Antitrust Proponent, To Review Amazon's Planned MGM Acquisition: Report
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, June 23, 2021
New FTC chair Lina Khan has advocated for more aggressive antitrust enforcement against Amazon and other giants within tech and other industries. ...
- 'Apple Daily' May Close On June 26 In New Blow To The Free Press
Around the Net In Publishing, Ray Schultz - Monday, June 21, 2021
Apple Daily, the pro-democracy tabloid based in Hong Kong, may stop publication on June 26, an internal memo states. The paper was raided by police last week. ...
- Broadband Providers Battling Net Neutrality Point To Victory In New York
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 21, 2021
A judge's injunction blocking New York's mandate for $15-a-month broadband supports the case against California's net neutrality law, broadband providers argue. ...
- Ad-Tech Company NaviStone Prevails In Privacy Battles
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, June 18, 2021
Tech company NaviStone has defeated two privacy lawsuits in Pennsylvania and California over its tracking technology, which enables online retailers to send mail to online visitors' postal addresses. ...
- Google Must Face Shareholders' Claims Over Delayed Disclosure Of Data Breach
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, June 17, 2021
Siding against Google, a federal appellate court has revived shareholders' claims that the company violated securities laws by failing to disclose a data breach that affected Google+ users. ...
- Judge Throws Out Ice Cube's Claims Against Robinhood
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, June 16, 2021
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit by rapper and entrepreneur Ice Cube against financial services company Robinhood over its use of his image and a variation of his catchphrase "che ...
- Big-Tech Critic Lina Khan Takes Helm At FTC
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Khan, who was approved Tuesday by a Senate vote of 69-28, was among the counsel to the House Judiciary Committee's antitrust subcommittee, which criticized large tech companies in a repo ...
- 'D' Magazine Owner Sues Over Disparagement
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, June 15, 2021
The publisher alleges that 'Jane Doe' called advertisers and made false claims about it. ...
- Supreme Court Orders New Look At LinkedIn Battle With hiQ Over Scraping
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 14, 2021
In an order issued Monday, the Supreme Court has given LinkedIn another opportunity to prove it's entitled to prevent analytics company hiQ Analytics from scraping data. ...
- Twitter Asks Appellate Court For 'Emergency' Order Blocking Texas Investigation
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 14, 2021
Twitter says Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's "explicitly retaliatory" probe of editorial decisions is causing irreparable harm to the company. ...
- Biden Revokes Ban On TikTok And WeChat
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, June 9, 2021
The White House Wednesday rescinded executive orders issued by former President Donald Trump that aimed to ban Chinese-owned apps TikTok and WeChat from operating in the U.S. ...
- Starz Sues Over Star+ Name Of Disney's Coming Latin American Streamer
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, June 10, 2021
Starz streamer StarzPlay has been in Latin America since 2019. Disney chose to position Star+ as a standalone streamer in Latin America, rather than as a content hub within Disney ...
- Comcast Stops Funding Hulu: Report
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, June 10, 2021
Tensions between Comcast and Disney over Disney's international streaming strategy have led to Comcast suspending its funding of Hulu, the streaming service co-owned by the companies, according to The Informat ...
- Google Should Be Considered A 'Common Carrier,' Ohio AG Says In New Lawsuit
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 8, 2021
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is asking a state judge to declare Google's search engine a common carrier and prohibit the company from prioritizing its services or products in t ...
- Google Fights The Nation, Other Publishers Over Antitrust Claims
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 7, 2021
Google says publishers who sued the company over alleged antitrust claims failed to consider that other companies, including Facebook and Amazon, also sell display ads. ...
- Is Search A Public Utility -- And Google A Common Carrier?
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, June 8, 2021
Some consider search, especially from Google and Microsoft, a public utility. To an extent I do, though it sits on the edge of the internet and isn't considered the "infrastructu ...
- BrandTotal Can Proceed With Some Facebook Data Access Claims
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, June 4, 2021
A federal judge has handed Facebook a partial defeat in its battle with analytics company BrandTotal over access to ad-related data. ...
- Google To Pay $270M, Change Ad Practices, To Settle French Antitrust Charges
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, June 7, 2021
Under the precedent-setting agreement, Google agreed to stop giving its own services preferential treatment in its advertising platforms. ...
- Gannett Fights Subpoena Requiring It To Identify Readers Of 'USA Today' Story
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, June 4, 2021
Gannett contends the demand "invades the First Amendment rights of both publisher and reader, and must be quashed accordingly." ...
- Supreme Court Pares Back Anti-Hacking Law
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, June 3, 2021
In a closely watched case, the Supreme Court Thursday voted 6-3 to narrow the scope of a 1980s-era anti-hacking law. ...
- Congress Probes Spotify's New Discovery Mode Program
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, June 4, 2021
Lawmakers are concerned that the in-pilot program, which offers prioritized recommendation algorithms in return for artists taking lower royalty rates, could trigger a financial "race to the bottom" for artis ...
- Facebook Hit With New EU, U.K. Antitrust Probes
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, June 4, 2021
Regulatory bodies are investigating whether Facebook is using its advertisers' data to unfairly benefit its Marketplace in competition for classified ads. ...
- First Amendment Trumps Biometric Privacy Law, Amazon Says
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, June 3, 2021
Amazon intends to defend itself against claims that it violated an Illinois biometric privacy statute by arguing that the law is unconstitutional. ...
- Google's Antitrust Settlement In France Should Embolden Publishers
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Tuesday, June 1, 2021
The complaint accused the search giant of abusing its power in the online advertising market. ...
- Florida Sued Over New Law Prohibiting Social Media Platforms From Banning Politicians
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, May 27, 2021
A Florida law prohibiting social media platforms from banning politicians is "so rife with fundamental infirmities that it appears to have been enacted without any regard for the Constitution," NetChoi ...
- Cox Communications Seeks To Set Aside $1 Billion Piracy Verdict
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 26, 2021
"Unlike the offerings of Napster and its ilk, internet service is neither designed nor advertised to promote piracy," Cox argues, as part of its appeal of a jury's December 20 ...
- ANA Urges New York To Put Brakes On Opt-In Privacy Bill
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 26, 2021
New York lawmakers should wait until 2022 before taking up a broad privacy bill that would require companies to obtain consumers' opt-in consent before processing their data for ad targetin ...
