France To Fine Google On Privacy, Low UK Taxes Draw Ire
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that France’s privacy regulator, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL),...
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NY Attorney General Settles With 19 Companies In Fake Review Crackdown
Today, the New York Attorney General’s office announced a settlement with 19 companies that agreed to stop writing fake online reviews....
Appeals Court Rules Facebook “Like” Protected By Constitution
reported by the Wall Street Journal. The underlying facts of the case involved sheriff’s deputies who were fired for endorsing (Liking)...
Yelp Sues Law Firm For Faking Reviews, Firm Claims Retaliation
McMillan Law Group for breach of contract and related claims. The site claims the law firm posted fake reviews about itself. The Yelp...
Edmunds.com Settles With Texas Marketing Firm Over Fake Reviews
That’s part of a recently announced settlement between Humankind Design and Edmunds.com, which also calls for Humankind to pay a portion...
Edmunds.com Sues Texas Marketing Firm For Allegedly Posting Fake Car Dealer Reviews
The company has issued a news release explaining its lawsuit against Humankind Design, a marketing company based in Friendswood, Texas,...
YouTube Becomes Latest Google Target By State Attorneys General
TheHill.com is reporting that the two state AGs sent a letter to Google lawyer Kent Walker asking how much the company has earned from...
Yelp Sues To Take Down Paid Review Mill
The Daily Dot, Yelp has sued to terminate and collect damages from a site called BuyOnlineReviews.net. The site leads with Yelp but it...
Survey: 96 Percent Say “Do Not Track” Should Be Respected
survey from a group called Consumer Action has an unequivocal message for marketers: do not track us. The telephone survey was conducted...
Europeans Take New Look At Google’s Android Licensing Practices
reporting that Google is now “facing an investigation by European authorities into allegations that it supported the leading Android...
Twitter Loses French Appeal To Avoid Disclosing Hate-Speaker Names
Anti-Semitism is currently on the rise throughout Europe. The Union of Jewish French Students (UEJF) and other human-rights groups sought...
3 Reasons Why Social Media Policy Is More Important Than Strategy
Image via shutterstock.com Social media policies aren’t typically the first things that come to mind when you’re developing a social...
As Early As 2000 NSA Set Out To “Live On The Network”
already been written about the National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) “domestic spying” since The Guardian’s initial revelations about the...
Twitter Reaches Spam Lawsuit Settlement With Tweet Adder
five companies that Twitter sued last year, accusing them of making tools that spread spam across its service. As AllThingsD first...
Microsoft, Google To Build New Windows Phone YouTube App Together
The two companies issued a statement today, two days after the deadline that Google had given Microsoft to remove the previous app from...
Microsoft To YouTube: Where’s That Interoperability Larry Page Was Talking About?
As The Verge reported today, Google sent Microsoft a cease-and-desist letter demanding that Microsoft remove the YouTube app from its...
Cookie-Stuffing Could Land eBay’s Top Two Affiliates In Jail
in-depth article about the ongoing legal cases that could land eBay’s two biggest affiliates in jail soon on charges of wire fraud. If...
Twitter Warns Reporters To Be “Extra Vigilant” After @AP Account Compromised
(screenshot via CNN) Twitter is warning media outlets to be “extra vigilant” in light of today’s incident involving a fake tweet sent out...
Why Are Banner Ads Showing Up On Popular Websites Like Apple.com & Bing.com?
article, two CMA Communications customers have reported banner ads being injected directly into webpages on popular websites, and they...
FTC Updates “.Com Disclosure” Online Ad Guidelines
updated its online advertising disclosure guidelines and requirements. A previous version of these guidelines was issued in 2000. The...
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