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Wendy Davis
@wendyndavis
Journalist covering legal issues and tech policy
Joined April 2008
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. questions nominees at hearing whether the new task force on privacy violates Congress's 2017 resolution that repealed of former FCC broadband privacy rules.
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Mobile data broker Kochava wants 's amended complaint to remain sealed, arguing complaint has "false and highly inflammatory allegations clearly aimed at misleading this court and the public."
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Data broker @kochavaofficiawill fight to prevent public from viewing 's amended complaint due to “false and highly inflammatory allegations"
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... and, plaintiff (and 2 others) refile today against and in District Court in Washington state...
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Plaintiff represented by withdraws high-profile complaint alleging violated NYC biometric privacy law in cashless stores.
prior coverage: mediapost.com/publications/a
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. files amended complaint against , but doc is sealed.
"FTC anticipates that defendant ... may take the position that some of the materials
referenced, excerpted, or cited in the Amended Complaint constitute trade secrets..."
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. fined $25 million for alleged COPPA violations. says Amazon "retained children’s voice recordings and transcripts indefinitely unless a parent actively deleted"
and filed FTC complaint about issue in 2019: mediapost.com/publications/a
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A Calif. resident sued for allegedly tracking her web browsing activity on outside publishers' sites. Says she blocks 3rd party cookies, but TikTok allegedly turns its 3d party cookie into a 1st party cookie.
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Plaintiff who sued for allegedly sending him unwanted texts about friends' birthdays indicates will ask SCOTUS to decide whether may have violated TCPA.
Was granted deadline extension for cert petition to June 29
prior: mediapost.com/publications/a
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The law also only requires companies to honor universal opt-outs if they do so in other states
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Unclear (to me) how the no-default-setting requirement applies when consumers download a browser that markets itself as privacy-friendly and activates DNT-like setting by default.
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Texas passes privacy law requiring companies to honor universal opt-out signals -- provided they're not set by default.
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13-year-old lawsuit against over data leakage via referer headers inched toward (possible) conclusion Thursday, when judge granted preliminary approval to $23 million settlement.
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USDJ remands Indiana's lawsuit against back to state court. Suggests 51-page complaint could have been shorter.
AG's "one sentence thesis statement" was "stretched into a work longer than Kafka’s The Metamorphosis."
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., currently appealing $1 b verdict for contributing to copyright infringement, calls 4th Circ's attention to SCOTUS decision in Twitter v. Taamneh.
Says SCOTUS ruled merely offering a service to public isn't aiding and abetting.
prior:
mediapost.com/publications/a
. opposes Trump's request that 9th Cir take judicial notice of “Twitter files.”
Says material irrelevant to legal question (whether account ban was state action) & procedurally improper b/c Twitter files don't contain facts “generally known” or “readily determinable”
. tells 9th Circuit class-action suit over children's privacy not preempted by COPPA. Claims stem from allegations that YouTube and channel operators collected data about young children via cookies (ftc.gov/news-events/ne)
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. defeats privacy lawsuit by Chrome users who said company wrongly collects data from people who don't sync Google accounts with browser.
Judge says users consented to data collection
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