X loses legal battle against California’s anti-hate speech law Maxwell William / Last Updated: Dec 29, 2023 Elon Musk’s X Corp., previously known as Twitter, has failed in its legal attempt to overturn a California law aimed at regulating harmful content on social media platforms. According to a recent Bloomberg report, a federal … Continue reading X loses legal battle against California’s anti-hate speech law
Microsoft officially owns Activision Blizzard, ending a 21-month battle with regulators The blockbuster $68.7 billion deal has finally closed after the companies cleared antitrust hurdles. Kris Holt Fri, Oct 13, 2023 NurPhoto via Getty Images The biggest acquisition in gaming history and one of the largest in the tech industry is in the books. … Continue reading Microsoft officially owns Activision Blizzard, ending a 21-month battle with regulators
Streaming Video Users Renew Privacy Battle With Google by Wendy Davis @wendyndavis, May 19, 2023 Streaming video users from New York and Minnesota will ask a federal appellate court to revive a lawsuit alleging that Google violated state privacy laws by retaining data about streaming video rentals, according to court papers filed Thursday. The video … Continue reading Streaming Video Users Renew Privacy Battle With Google
Court Sides With Sen. Warren In Battle Over Anti-Vax Book by Wendy Davis @wendyndavis, May 4, 2023 Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D) used “strong rhetoric” when writing to Amazon about the anti-vaccine book “The Truth About COVID-19,” but didn’t violate the First Amendment by crossing the line from attempted persuasion to coercion, a federal appellate court … Continue reading Court Sides With Sen. Warren In Battle Over Anti-Vax Book
Chrome Users Lose Round In Privacy Battle by Wendy Davis @wendyndavis, March 3, 2023 Siding with Google, a federal appellate court has refused to intervene in a privacy battle over the Chrome browser’s incognito mode. The users had asked the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to hear an immediate appeal of a trial judge’s decision … Continue reading Appeals Court Won’t Intervene In Chrome Privacy Battle
Google To Seek New Appeal In Children’s Privacy Battle by Wendy Davis @wendyndavis, January 6, 2023 Google will ask federal judges to reconsider a recent decision that revived a class-action privacy lawsuit brought by parents of young YouTube users, the company disclosed in papers filed this week. The company said it will request a new … Continue reading Google To Seek New Appeal In Children’s Privacy Battle
Google Exclusivity And DOJ’s Battle Over Search by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, September 9, 2022 Google pays billions of dollars to other companies — Apple, Samsung Electronics, etc. — to keep its search as the default option on phones and in browsers, something the Department of Justice (DOJ) believes creates an illegal dominance over the search … Continue reading Google Exclusivity And DOJ’s Battle Over Search
By John Corso-Esquivel and Lia Rose Newman July 25, 2022 For abortion rights advocates, Barbara Kruger’s iconic feminist image “Untitled (Your body is a battleground)” remains as relevant today as when it was first released in 1989. Following the May 2, 2022, leak of Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito’s anti-abortion draft decision, Google searches … Continue reading Why a 1989 poster is still a fixture in the battle over abortion rights
Julia Magas November 30, 2021 Financial technologies are rapidly transforming from futuristic imaginings into an inextricable component of everyday life. Back in 2016, such services as Apple Pay and Samsung Pay were just entering the global market as newfangled inventions, while today, they are used to processing three times more transactions than those made using … Continue reading Brick-And-Mortar Banks Losing the Battle to Their Digital Counterparts
At AMZ Innovate, Amazon sellers expressed their frustration with the tech giant, and also their granular obsession with it. Kim Davis on November 12, 2021 “Their algorithms are garbage,” said Lesley Hensell Demand, partner in Riverbend Consulting, a firm that helps Amazon sellers overcome a host of challenges, including account de-activation and loss of ASINs … Continue reading Amazon sellers battle the giant’s algorithm-based policy- and decision-making
