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Navigating the New Reality of AI in Political Advertising
This week, let’s focus on Meta’s latest announcement about the use of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) in online political advertising, paralleling the recent executive order on AI.
Bad Privacy Practices at GoodRx?
This week, let’s look at a new Consent Decree required by FTC and consider its prohibition of disclosure of health information for advertising purposes, along with the FTC’s expanding privacy enforcement and continued rumblings inside the Commission.
Meta’s Search for a (highly profitable) Legal Basis
This week, let’s consider the implications of the EDPB's new decision in the long-running dispute with Meta its behavioral advertising business model.
Hubris, Fantasies, and No Accountability
This week, let's consider some commonalities underlying the problems plaguing Twitter, Meta, TikTok, and crypto-exchange FTX.
Facebook Gave Police Data to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion. What’s next?
This week, let’s confront more Facebook/Meta privacy problems by examining Facebook’s Privacy Policy alongside the recent news that Facebook/Meta gave data to police in Nebraska for the purpose of investigating and prosecuting a teenager for an abortion.
The Perfect Storm: Facial Recognition
As Clearview AI expands and Texas sues Meta/Facebook for violations of its biometric privacy law, let's consider whether government is ignoring its role in perpetuating the problems associated with facial recognition.
Europe to Meta/Facebook: “You want to leave? Fine. Leave.”
This week, let’s consider a cross-border data transfer controversy under the GDPR and how Meta/Facebook is “absolutely not threatening to leave Europe.”
Like We Need This: SCOTUS rules that the TCPA allows Robo-Texting
This week, let’s consider the Supreme Court’s ruling in Facebook v. Duguid, concluding that the Telephone Consumer Protection Act doesn’t prevent the automated sending of text messages.
NY-DFS and SEC Show Teeth, but will they Bite?
This week, let’s consider the investigations and class actions currently faced by First American Financial Corp and whether all these charges will be material from a financial perspective.
The "Hipster" Antitrust Hearing
This week, let’s consider the House’s historic antitrust hearing, the reckoning faced by Big Tech companies, and why we think data privacy and monopolies of data should factor into antitrust considerations.
Gloom, Doom, and Zoom: Privacy, Security, and Hindsight
This week, we pick up on our previous post regarding the privacy and security risks associated with videoconferencing, and in particular, Zoom, and propose some solutions.
Political Lies, Behavioral Advertising, and the Complicity of Algorithms
This week, “Facebook goes beyond providing a blank slate for advertisers” and we propose solutions.
FTC, Facebook, and Future Consequences for Privacy Violations
This week, we consider the FTC’s settlement with Facebook and its (potentially) profound consequences for privacy violations.