- Google Sued In Washington State Over Political Ads -- Again
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, February 25, 2021
Google continues to violate a Washington state campaign finance law requiring it to disclose information about purchasers of political ads, Attorney General Bob Ferguson alleges in a new case again ...
- FTC To Tackle 'Dark Patterns'
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, February 24, 2021
"Some sites sneak extra items into a consumer's online shopping cart, or require users to navigate a maze of screens and confusing questions to avoid being charged for unwanted produc ...
- Firefox Unveils New Tool To Prevent Cookie-Based Tracking
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 23, 2021
The new feature, "Total Cookie Protection," prevents cross-site tracking by keeping cookies in what Firefox is calling a "cookie jar." ...
- Judge Won't Block California Net Neutrality Rules
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Handing the cable industry a defeat, a federal judge in California on Tuesday refused to prohibit the state from enforcing its net neutrality law. ...
- FCC Republicans Endorse Regulations For Social Media, Champion Free Speech For TV
Social Media Insider, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Egged on by former President Donald Trump, Republican policymakers spent the better part of 2020 clamoring to regulate social media platforms. ...
- Virginia Passes Privacy Law Backed By Tech Companies
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, February 22, 2021
Virginia lawmakers have passed a privacy bill similar to a law that took effect last year in California. The bill now heads to Gov. Ralph Northam, who is expected ...
- PEN America Withdraws Lawsuit Against White House
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, February 19, 2021
Journalist advocacy organization PEN America on Thursday dropped a lawsuit claiming the previous administration violated the First Amendment by retaliating against journalists who criticized former
President Donald Trump. ...
- Maryland Ad Tax Will Backfire, Business Groups Argue In Court Challenge
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, February 18, 2021
Far from stemming fake news or hate speech, Maryland's new tax on digital ads will leave the internet "overrun by low-quality 'junk,'" the Chamber of Commerce, Internet Association and othe ...
- Consumer Groups Urge Virginia Lawmakers To Beef Up Privacy Bill
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 16, 2021
The proposed bill is "based on the outdated 'notice and opt out' framework which underpins the current system of commercial surveillance," Consumer Federation of America argues. ...
- Cable Industry And California Want To Move Forward With Net Neutrality Battle
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 16, 2021
The cable industry and state of California say there is no reason to delay a hearing scheduled for next week on the validity of the state's net neutrality law ...
- Social Platform Parler Returns Online
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, February 15, 2021
Parler stated Monday it will be "built on sustainable, independent technology and not reliant on so-called 'Big Tech' for its operations." ...
- Maryland Legislature Overrides Veto, Enacts New Digital Advertising Tax
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, February 12, 2021
The new Maryland law imposes imposes taxes on companies that have more than $100 million in digital ad revenue. ...
- Biden Administration Asks Court To Pause Battle Over TikTok
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, February 10, 2021
The White House says in new court papers it's evaluating whether the attempted ban was justified. ...
- Net Neutrality Necessary For Public Safety, Groups Tell FCC
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Advocacy groups including Public Knowledge, Common Cause and Free Press, as well as officials in Santa Clara County, are urging the FCC to restore the Obama-era open internet rules. ...
- Biden Administration Abandons Challenge To California Net Neutrality Law
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, February 8, 2021
The Department of Justice on Monday withdrew a lawsuit challenging California's net neutrality law, which largely requires broadband providers that offer service in the state to follow the Obama-era regulati ...
- FCC Should Restore Obama-Era Net Neutrality Rules, Incompas Urges
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, February 5, 2021
Without net neutrality rules, broadband providers "have the incentive and ability to harm competition and consumers," Incompas writes in a petition to the FCC. ...
- Senate Democrats Propose Broad Curbs On Websites' Protections For Users' Speech
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Saturday, February 6, 2021
Three Senate Democrats have unveiled a new bill that would strip tech companies of their protections against civil lawsuits for a broad range of posts by users. Critics say t ...
- Florida Governor Takes Aim At Tech Companies
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, February 4, 2021
Tech companies would face fines of $100,000 per day for de-platforming political candidates in Florida, under a proposal by the state's governor. ...
- Report Finds No Anti-Right Bias On Social; Recommends Creating Digital Regulatory Agency
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, February 1, 2021
NYU report also recommends amending, rather than repealing, Section 230. ...
- Massachusetts Bill Would Ban Data Caps And Price Hikes During Pandemic
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, January 29, 2021
Lawmakers in Massachusetts have introduced a bill that would require Comcast to wait until the pandemic ends before following through on its plan to implement a 1.2 TB data ...
- Advocacy Groups Continue Battle Over Trump's Social Media Crackdown
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, January 29, 2021
Voter advocacy groups have appealed a trial judge's dismissal of their lawsuit challenging former President Trump's executive order regarding social media. ...
- North Dakota's Proposed Opt-In Privacy Law Needs Overhaul, Ad Industry Argues
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, January 26, 2021
"North Dakota should not adopt a one-size fits all consent requirement for the sale of protected data," the Association of National Advertisers, American Association of Advertising Agencies, Interactive Advertising Burea ...
- Preserve Section 230, Watchdogs Urge Biden
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Dozens of civil rights groups and other watchdogs are urging the new administration to avoid repealing or weakening Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a 25-year-old media law th ...
- Privacy Bill Moves Forward In Washington State
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, January 22, 2021
Lawmakers in Washington state have advanced a privacy bill that would require companies to obtain people's opt-in consent before drawing on "sensitive" data for ad targeting. ...
- Biden Names Slaughter Acting Chair Of FTC
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, January 21, 2021
Slaughter has emerged in recent years as one of the agency's toughest critics of tech companies. ...
- Rosenworcel Tapped For Acting FCC Chief
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, January 21, 2021
FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, one of the agency's leading proponents of net neutrality regulations, has been tapped by President Joe Biden to serve as acting chair of the agency. ...
- Sen. Marco Rubio Calls On Twitter's Jack Dorsey To Explain 'Content Moderation Process'
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Sen. Marco Rubio's letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey requested an explanation for the company's failure to remove or label a falsified image posted by a member of the Chine ...
- Former Google Engineer Anthony Levandowski Among Trump's Long LIst Of Pardons
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Before leaving office, President Trump released a long list of pardons. Among them was Anthony Levandowski, former Google engineer who pleaded guilty to stealing technology related to self-driving cars before becomi ...
- Influencers Urge Appeals Court To Allow TikTok To Continue Operating
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, January 18, 2021
President Trump's planned TikTok ban would harm people who post content to the service for profit, three influencers tell appeals court. ...
- Fertility App Must Inform Users About Privacy Prosecution, FTC Says
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, January 14, 2021
In a first, the Federal Trade Commission is requiring a company prosecuted for privacy violations to notify consumers that it shared information about them with outside companies. ...