- 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The White House Wednesday rescinded executive orders issued by former President Donald Trump that aimed to ban Chinese-owned apps TikTok and WeChat from operating in the U.S. ...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 ...
- Alan Dershowitz Sues Netflix For $80M Over Jeffrey Epstein Docuseries
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, May 27, 2021
The attorney, who represented Epstein in a controversial suit more than a decade ago, claims the Netflix series defames him with false accusations that he had sex with one ...
- New York's Privacy Bill Is Too Onerous For Publishers
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Thursday, May 27, 2021
The bill could negatively affect publishers by diminishing the value of their ad inventories and expose them to greater legal liabilities. ...
- Amazon Hit With Antitrust Lawsuit By Washington, D.C. Attorney General
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, May 25, 2021
"We filed this antitrust lawsuit to put an end to Amazon's illegal control of prices across the online retail market," said Washington, DC Attorney General Karl Racine. "We need ...
- New York's Sweeping Privacy Bill Moves Forward In Senate
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, May 25, 2021
An opt-in New York privacy bill advanced again on Monday in the state Senate, where it could soon be up for a vote. ...
- Lawsuit Targets Vital Farms' Premium-Egg Ad Claims
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Steve Ellwanger - Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Class-action lawsuit alleges the company makes false and misleading claims about how it treats the hens that produce its eggs. ...
- Google Must Face Privacy Claims Over Data Transfers To App Developers
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Saturday, May 22, 2021
"As the present controversy throws into sharp relief, navigating Google's user-facing privacy representations is a singularly fragmented affair," a federal judge said in a decision issued Friday. ...
- Allen Media Group Sues McDonald's, Alleging Discriminatory Ad-Buying Practices
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, May 21, 2021
The lawsuit charges that McDonald's has discriminated against Allen's Entertainment Studios and Weather Group through a pattern of racial stereotyping and refusals to contract. ...
- Opt-In Privacy Bill Advances In New York
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, May 20, 2021
A sweeping privacy bill introduced recently in New York cleared its first hurdle this week, when it was approved by the state Senate Consumer Protection Committee. ...
