- Human Rights Group Wants Illegal Posts Archived To Aid Prosecutions
Social Media Insider, Fern Siegel - Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Platforms are becoming more active in removing undesirable content, which can help governments and local officials document abuse. ...
- Chamber of Commerce, Lyft, Home Depot And Others Back Facebook In Battle Over Texts
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, September 14, 2020
"Consumers want real-time communications from businesses: e.g., text messages about when to expect drivers; alerts about new deals or promotions; or communications with shoppers who cannot find the originally order ...
- YouTube Hit With $3 Billion Suit Over Alleged Use Of Kids' Data
Around the Net In Digital, Ray Schultz - Monday, September 14, 2020
A class-action lawsuit filed in the UK accuses YouTube of breaking UK and European data laws by targeting children. In addition, it seeks $3 billion. ...
- Senate Democrats Urge Broadband Providers To Suspend Data Caps, Expand Coverage
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, September 11, 2020
Sen. Mark Warner and 10 others said Friday in a letter that "remote education is only as effective as available internet service," with "unprecedented numbers of students" relying on remo ...
- TikTok Ban Violates First Amendment, Digital Rights Group Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, September 11, 2020
"The free-speech implications of the President's action are clear, not only for the individuals who wish to speak, but for the community they have created," the Electronic Frontier Foundation argu ...
- Portland Bans Facial-Recognition Technology
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 10, 2020
Come January, private companies in Portland, Oregon will no longer be allowed to use facial-recognition technology in stores, parks, and other places of public accommodation, under an ordinance passed unanimous ...
- EarthLink Sues Charter Over Alleged 'Stealing' Of Subscribers
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Thursday, September 10, 2020
EarthLink has filed a lawsuit against Charter Communications, alleging Charter duped EarthLink subscribers by telling them their broadband provider was out of business, among other things. The case, on fi ...
- Republicans Introduce Bill To Curb Publishers' Protections For Posts By Users
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 9, 2020
The "Online Freedom and Viewpoint Diversity Act," unveiled by Sens. Roger Wicker, Lindsey Graham and Marsha Blackburn, would tie web companies' potential liability for users' speech to the companies' conte ...
- Trump's Potential Supreme Court Picks Include Big Tech Critics
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Republican Senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz are on the roster of President Donald Trump's potential Supreme Court appointees if he wins a second term. ...
- Facebook Urges Judge To Dismiss Maffick Lawsuit Over 'State-Controlled Media' Label
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 8, 2020
Facebook says Maffick's libel lawsuit should be dismissed, arguing that the "state-controlled media" label is an opinion, protected by the First Amendment. ...
- Justice Department Backs Facebook In Fight Over Robotexts
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 8, 2020
The Trump administration is urging the Supreme Court to throw out a lawsuit claiming the social media company violated a federal law by sending unwanted text messages. ...
- Facebook Asks Supreme Court To Throw Out Robotext Claims
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, September 4, 2020
Facebook is asking the Supreme Court to reverse a lower court ruling that revived a lawsuit claiming the company violated a federal law by sending unwanted text messages. ...
- AT&T Says Tech Platforms Should Be Required To Disclose Algorithms
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 3, 2020
"Leading tech platforms should now be required to make disclosures about how they collect and use data, how they rank search results, how they interconnect and interoperate with others, a ...
- 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. ...
