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News of the Week; October 28, 2020
DIGITAL Facebook Seeks Shutdown of NYU Research Project Into Political Ad Targeting: In letter this month, Facebook says the project violates provisions in its terms of service that prohibit bulk data collection No Robots, Spiders, or Scrapers: Legal and Ethical Regulation of Data Collection Methods in Social Media Terms of Service (Casey Fiesler, Nathan Beard, […]
News of the Week; October 21, 2020
DIGITAL Justice Dept. files long-awaited antitrust suit against Google What we know about the DOJ’s antitrust case against Google so far Bill Barr’s Google ‘Antitrust Inquiry’ Is A Weaponized Farce Trademark Genericide And One Big Way The DOJ Admits That Its Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google Is Utter Garbage Supporters Of Using Antitrust Against Big Tech […]
News of the Week; October 14, 2020
DIGITAL Facebook and the Group That Planned to Kidnap Gretchen Whitmer: Extremist groups and conspiracy theorists like to connect with each other just like everyone else. Facebook Doesn’t Have a Duty to Prevent a Murder–Godwin v. Facebook (Eric Goldman) Twitter, Facebook face blowback after stopping circulation of NY Post story Court Says Twitter Must Unmask […]
News of the Week; October 7, 2020
DIGITAL US House committee says Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook engaged in monopolistic behavior: Investigation recommends stronger antitrust actions, but requires Congressional approval for further action House: Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Google have “monopoly power,” should be split Congress Issues Antitrust Report on Large Tech Platforms Should Big Tech Be Setting the Terms of Political Speech? Step […]
News of the Week; September 30, 2020
DIGITAL Microsoft boots apps out of Azure used by China-sponsored hackers Trump likely overstepped authority with TikTok ban, judge rules Judge Rejected Ban On TikTok Because Trump’s DOJ Can’t Show Any Real National Security Threat Court Enjoins Trump Administration’s Attempt to Kick TikTok Out of App Stores–TikTok v. Trump (Eric Goldman) The Politics and Optics […]