A US judge dismisses Ethan Zuckerman's lawsuit against Meta; Zuckerman sought to stop Meta from suing him over a tool to let users unfollow everyone on Facebook
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The US DOJ sues Adobe for allegedly harming “consumers by enrolling them in its default, most lucrative subscription plan without clearly disclosing” plan terms
Amid a flurry of tech news yesterday … Kevin Okemwa / Windows Central : US government sues Adobe for ‘deceptive’ business tactics and hiding steep subscription cancellation charges to ‘trap’ its custo...
A preview of the NetChoice cases to be argued at SCOTUS on February 26, about the constitutionality of Texas and Florida laws regulating social media content
but conservatives may have already won David McCabe / New York Times : What to Know About the Supreme Court Arguments on Social Media Laws Tech Policy Press : Review of Amicus Briefs Filed in NetChoic...
On Friday, SCOTUS may discuss whether to hear two cases challenging social media laws in Texas and Florida and plans to hear two Section 230 cases in February
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Google questions whether DOJ's new top antitrust official Jonathan Kanter can be impartial, citing his work with Yelp and the News Media Alliance
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Revelations from government investigations have paved the way for private antitrust lawsuits against Google and Facebook brought by publishers and advertisers
Government antitrust lawsuits have created openings for numerous private cases against Big Tech, with more expected to come. Tweets: @nytimestech , @blmohr , @nytimesbusiness , and @dmccabe See also M...
Filing: in its first response to DOJ's antitrust lawsuit, Google says people use Search “because they choose to, not because they are forced to”
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Sources: FTC secured the rights to begin a potential anti-trust probe of Facebook as part of an agreement that let the DOJ take the reins in a Google probe
Federal Trade Commission secures right to examine how Facebook's practices affect digital competition — This is a developing story and will be updated shortly. Tweets: @mayazi , @dmccabe , and @shir...
Google says it will no longer enforce mandatory arbitration for current and future employees starting March 21; change won't apply to many temporary staff
conditioning civil rights on how much societal power workers in any one company have—isn't enough. It's time for Congress to #EndForcedArbitration. http://twitter.com/... Liz Fong-Jones / @lizthegrey ...
AT&T pretends it loves net neutrality and joins today's Day of Action protest, despite its consistent opposition to it over the years
kind of Todd Shields / Bloomberg : Google, Amazon Join Online Protest of Net Neutrality Change Digital Commerce 360 : Net neutrality changes draw protests from Amazon, Google, Facebook and Twitter WPT...