30 Sep, 2024 The Next Target of CIPA Litigation: Search Bars By Caren Decter Over the past two years, we have seen an influx of lawsuits asserting that the use of tracking technologies on websites violates the...
08 Nov, 2023 Meta Says AI Use Must be Disclosed in Political and Social Issue Advertising By Jeff Greenbaum Meta just announced that it is updating its advertising policies to require advertisers to disclose when political, election, or social...
07 Nov, 2023 Meta Announces Limits on Advertisers' Use of Its New Generative AI Tools By Jeff Greenbaum Recently, Meta launched new generative AI tools for advertisers. Now, Meta has just announced some limits on the types of advertisers...
22 May, 2023 Meta fined record $1.3 billion under GDPR and enjoined from transferring data, threatening all data transfers from EU to US By Daniel Goldberg Today, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) published its long-anticipated decision regarding the legality of Meta’s transfers of...
10 Feb, 2023 Facebook Further Limits Ad Targeting Options for Teens By Jeff Greenbaum Last month, Meta announced that it was taking further steps to limit the ways in which advertisers can target teens. Meta said that it...
19 Oct, 2022 Meta Facing up to $25 Million Penalty for Political Ad Transparency Violations By Ariel Radow Washington state’s attorney general filed a motion last week seeking the maximum penalty of $24.6 million in civil penalty against Meta,...
06 Sep, 2022 Netflix to Ban Crypto Advertising in New Ad-Supported Tier By Jeff Greenbaum When Netflix launches its new ad-supported tier this fall, it won't be accepting cryptocurrency advertising -- as well as advertising in...
26 Aug, 2022 Meta Announces New Election-Related Advertising Policies By Jeff Greenbaum Earlier this month, Meta announced updates to its political advertising policies in advance of the midterm elections in the United...
06 Aug, 2022 Amazon Sues Thousands of Sellers of Fake Reviews (Again) By Terri Seligman In a complaint with several paragraphs devoted to describing its own efforts to protect the integrity of the product review ecosystem,...
22 Jun, 2022 Facebook Reaches Settlement With Justice Department to Resolve Discriminatory Housing Advertising Charges By Jeff Greenbaum The U.S. Department of Justice announced that it reached a settlement with Meta Platforms (formerly known as Facebook) resolving...
24 May, 2022 Meta to Provide Additional Information Regarding Political Ad Targeting By Wendy Schechter Meta has announced updates to its ad transparency tools that it says will provide more information to researchers about “advertiser...
11 May, 2022 Meta Beats Facebook Users’ Scam Ad Class Action By Ariel Radow Last month, a California federal judge held that Facebook is not responsible for allegedly deceptive advertisements that appeared on its...
04 Mar, 2022 Google Stops All Ad Sales in Russia By Jeff Greenbaum According to media reports, Google announced that, "in light of extraordinary circumstances," it is stopping all advertising sales in...
26 Feb, 2022 Facebook, Twitter, and Google Impose Advertising Restrictions in Response to Ukraine Invasion (Updated) By Jeff Greenbaum In response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Facebook, Twitter, and Google have made changes to their advertising policies. Facebook...
12 Jan, 2022 Do Facebook and Instagram Treat "Adult Products" for Men and Women Differently? By Jeff Greenbaum The Center for Intimacy Justice recently released a report charging Facebook and Instagram with applying their advertising policies...
06 Dec, 2021 Facebook Updates Its Policies on Social Issue Advertising By Chibundu Okwuosa Facebook recently updated its policies on social issue advertising based on feedback that its heightened requirements should not apply to...