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News of the Week; May 20, 2020
DIGITAL Facebook to pay $9 million penalty to Competition Bureau Misleading Privacy Claims Results in $9 Million Dollar Penalty for Facebook High School Can’t Expel Student for Sharing Memes in Private Snapchat Conversation–JS v. Manheim Township School District (Eric Goldman) Covid-19 Just Triggered The Worst Quarter Ever For Cable TV ‘Cord Cutting’ One Of The […]
News of the Week; May 13, 2020
DIGITAL Facebook will pay $52 million in settlement with moderators who developed PTSD on the job: Current and former moderators will all be paid a minimum of $1,000 Facebook Agrees To Pay $52 Million To Content Moderators Whose Work Affected Their Mental Health Facebook settles moderator suit for $52M as hate speech on site increases […]
News of the Week; May 6, 2020
DIGITAL Bye, Amazon (Tim Bray) Amazon VP Tim Bray Quits To Protest Employee Firings Amazon Vice President: ‘I Quit in Dismay’ at Company Firing Whistleblowers Tim Bray, Early Internet Guru, And Amazon VP Quits Over The ‘Chickenshit’ Company’s Targeting Of Employees Speaking Out About COVID-19 An Amazon VP’s resignation has cast a spotlight on the […]
News of the Week; April 29, 2020
DIGITAL How Facebook Works for Trump: Donald Trump won the presidency by using the social network’s advertising machinery in exactly the way the company wanted. He’s poised to do it again. Facebook Still Can’t Dismiss Sex Trafficking Victims’ Lawsuit in Texas State Court (Eric Goldman) Public Colleges Are Violating The 1st Amendment In Using Facebook […]
News of the Week; April 22, 2020
DIGITAL TheDirty Easily Defeats Another Defamation Lawsuit–Laake v. Dirty World (Eric Goldman) Another Terrible Copyright Ruling on IAPs’ Liability for Users’ File-Sharing–Warner v. Charter (Eric Goldman) Section 230 Doesn’t Protect Advertising “Background Reports” on People–Lukis v. Whitepages (Eric Goldman) Ninth Circuit Reinstates Decade-Old Lawsuit Against Facebook For Tracking Logged-Out Users–In re Facebook Internet Tracking (Eric […]
News of the Week; April 15, 2020
DIGITAL Federal government open to new law to fight pandemic misinformation: It’s one of several measures the government is considering to counter fake news about the virus online Puerto Rico Decides The 1st Amendment Doesn’t Apply To Its Citizens; Criminalizes ‘Fake News’ French Government Says Google Must Pay French News Agencies For Sending Traffic Their […]
News of the Week; April 8, 2020
DIGITAL Dear Jeff Bezos, instead of firing me, protect your workers from coronavirus: I spoke up for safety at an Amazon warehouse. Unfortunately I believe it cost me my job Leaked Amazon Memo Details Plan to Smear Fired Warehouse Organizer: ‘He’s Not Smart or Articulate’ – Written notes from the meeting, attended by CEO Jeff […]
News of the Week; April 1, 2020
DIGITAL Court: Violating a site’s terms of service isn’t criminal hacking Levandowski says Uber must pay his $179 million judgment to Google Yet Another Court Says Suing Twitter For Terrorist Acts Is A Waste Of Everyone’s Time “Material Support for Terrorism” Lawsuit Fails a Third Time–Colon v. Twitter (Eric Goldman) Redbox’s Terms of Use Fail […]