- Court Confirms Ruling Against Facebook In Battle Over News Anchor's Photo
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, November 17, 2021
In a defeat for Facebook, a federal appellate court on Wednesday refused to reconsider a recent ruling that revived news anchor Karen Hepp's lawsuit against the company over an ...
- Snap Launches Multi-Format Ad Delivery
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Snap Inc.'s newest ad product allows brands to purchase all video ad formats in a single ad set, enabling advertisers to optimize their campaigns toward their central goal or object ...
- Photo-Sharing App Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Facebook
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Monday, November 8, 2021
A now-defunct photo-sharing app has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Meta for copying their product and then obliterating them. ...
- Clearview's Facial Recognition System Violated Australians' Privacy, Regulator Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Clearview AI's practices "fall well short of Australians' expectations for the protection of their personal information," Australian regulator Angelene Falk said. ...
- Facebook To Halt Facial Recognition, Delete Faceprints
Social Media Insider, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, November 2, 2021
"People who've opted in will no longer be automatically recognized in photos and videos," AI vice president Jerome Pesenti said in a blog post. ...
- Digital Rights Groups Side With Facebook In Anchor's Suit Over Dating Ads
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, November 1, 2021
A recent decision reviving news anchor Karen Hepp's claims against Facebook will spur online services to stop allowing users to post content, a coalition of digital rights groups, libraries a ...
- Snap Promotes Google Pixel 6 Via 5G Avengers AR Lenses
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Thursday, October 28, 2021
In its latest AR experiment, Snap has partnered with Verizon, Google, and Disney to produce a series of exclusive Snapchat AR lenses featuring "groundbreaking, cinema-quality effects" that showcase the superpowe ...
- Google Lets Kids Request Removal Of Self-Images In Search
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Google introduced a tool Wednesday to give minors more control of self-images that appear in search queries, allowing those under 18 to request removal. The criteria is based partly ...
- News Anchor's Lawsuit Will Have 'Far Reaching Consequences,' Facebook Warns
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 22, 2021
A recent court ruling that revived Philadelphia news anchor Karen Hepp's lawsuit against Facebook will have "far-reaching consequences," including a chilling effect on online speech, Facebook argues in papers fil ...
- Facebook To Seek New Hearing In Battle With News Anchor Over Dating Ads
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Facebook will ask the 3rd Circuit to reconsider its decision to allow Karen Hepp to sue the company for misappropriating her image by hosting dating ads with her photo. ...
- Google Brings MUM To Search, Lens, Query Results In New Features
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Google today announced new applications for its Multitask Unified Model technology, including multimodal search with Google Lens, Related topics in videos, and new search result features during its virtual Sear ...
- Court Sides Against Facebook In Battle Over News Anchor Karen Hepp's Photo
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 23, 2021
A federal appellate panel has revived the news anchor's claim that Facebook violated her right to control commercial use of her image by hosting a dating ad with her ph ...
- Judge Sides With Instagram In Copyright Fight Over Embedding Tool
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, September 20, 2021
A federal judge in California threw out claims by photographers who alleged Instagram's embedding tool enabled outside publishers to infringe copyright. ...
- Facebook, Ray-Ban Create Smart Glasses - But Will Consumers Buy Them?
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, September 10, 2021
The smart glasses can capture pictures and short videos, make calls and play music. Will this be just another shiny object for advertisers or provide any type of data ...
- Amazon Advertising Spurs Growth Of Dedicated Agencies
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, August 27, 2021
Selling successfully on Amazon can become complicated, so after years of selling on the marketplace, Canopy Management CEO Brian Burt set out to develop a program to help others. ...
- Apple Has Scanned iCloud Emails For Child Sexual Abuse Content Since 2019: Report
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, August 27, 2021
The news follows the announcement that Apple will begin scanning photos as they are uploaded into iCloud Photos. ...
- WhatsApp Chief Blasts Apple's New 'Surveillance System'
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, August 6, 2021
"Instead of focusing on making it easy for people to report content that's shared with them, Apple has built software that can scan all the private photos on your pho ...
- Apple The Autocrat: Tech Firm Announces Plan To Track Presumed Child Pornography Uploads
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Friday, August 6, 2021
The Electronic Frontier Foundation denounces the effort as a potential privacy violation. And it is hypocritical, given Apple's Mail Protection Program. ...
- What's Up With The WhatsApp Disappearing Photos And Videos?
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, August 4, 2021
Facebook is touting that the "view once" feature makes "your private moments disappear after a single view" and that "not everything we share needs to become a permanent digital reco ...
- Clearview Draws Support In Privacy Battle Over Faceprints
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 26, 2021
"In the United States, privacy laws cannot ban the collection, analysis, or subsequent disclosure of information that is already in public view without conflicting with the First Amendment," Eugene Volok ...
- Clearview's 'Faceprinting' Not Protected By First Amendment, Watchdogs Argue
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 9, 2021
An Illinois biometric privacy law requiring companies to obtain consent before collecting and storing peoples' faceprints doesn't violate the First Amendment, a digital rights group argues. ...
- Sex Sells, But Older Sex Wins Lions
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Monday, June 21, 2021
"I've never seen an older generation photographed like that," said Cannes Lions jury President Liz Taylor. ...
- 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 ...
- 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. ...
- Twitter Tests Full-Screen Ads In Fleets
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Twitter touts Fleets as a way for brands to be creative and reach readers in the moment. They might want to "go behind the scenes, have a creator take ov ...
- Advocates Petition Facebook To Axe Plan To Create Instagram For Kids
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, May 25, 2021
More than 180,000 people have signed petitions urging Facebook to abandon plans to launch a children's version of Instagram, the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and other watchdogs that organiz ...
- Attorneys General Urge Facebook To Drop Plans For Children's Instagram
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, May 10, 2021
"Use of social media can be detrimental to the health and well-being of children, who are not equipped to navigate the challenges of having a social media account," 44 attorne ...
- Everalbum Finalizes FTC Settlement, Will Delete Facial-Recognition Algorithms
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, May 7, 2021
The settlement resolves allegations that Everalbum misled users about its use of controversial facial-recognition technology. ...
- Snapchat Must Face Lawsuit Over Fatal High-Speed Car Crash
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, May 4, 2021
A court rejected Snapchat's argument that Section 230 protects it from liability over a fatal accident involving a passenger using a 'speed filter.' ...
- Disabled Regularly Access Visual/Non-Visual Media, Utilize Assistive Tools To Compensate
Research Intelligencer, Joe Mandese - Friday, April 23, 2021
Persons with visual, hearing, speech and/or cognitive disabilities are active consumers of media, but they also have special needs, frequently utilize assistive tools to compensate, and often have a difficu ...
