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Mary Kay Cosmetics Sues RetailMeNot For Fraud, Trademark Infringement
When consumers are ready to make an online purchase a substantial number will pause during checkout, tab over to a search engine and query...
Senate Resuscitates E-Commerce Tax Bill, Again
After the House declined to take up the Marketplace Fairness Act, a new coalition of Senators is trying to put it back on the table....
Google Wins Injunction Against Mississippi Attorney General’s “Conspiracy” To Censor Search Results
Last fall, Google sued Mississippi State Attorney General Jim Hood in federal court to quash a “punitive and burdensome subpoena.”...
A Proposal To Unmask Hate On Twitter, Without Abandoning Anonymity
Harassment and hate speech threaten to poison the social media waters, making them toxic for users and marketers. Columnist Eric Schwartzman...
Survey: 64 Percent Want Gov’t To Regulate Advertiser Data Use
A few years ago Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg argued that privacy standards in the US were relaxing. It’s perhaps more accurate to say that...
WSJ: Search Engines Ignoring FTC Rules About Labeling Search Ads
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has implicitly issued a challenge to the FTC. Covering alleged non-compliance with the FTC’s 2013 directive...
Court Ruling: Just Because People “Google” Stuff, Google Shouldn’t Lose Its Trademark
To Google something has come to mean looking it up online. As the saying goes, “Google is a verb.” However, that usage...
Online Mortgage Lead Generator To Pay $500K Fine For Deceptive Ads
A Colorado-based firm has agreed to pay $500,000 to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that it falsely advertised free...
New California Law Says Businesses Can’t Stop Consumers From Posting Online Reviews
So-called “non-disparagement clauses,” buried in terms and conditions or consumer purchase agreements, would probably be voided...
California “Extortion” Class Action Against Yelp Dismissed
Yelp has been repeatedly sued under various theories for allegedly manipulating reviews to gain ad revenue from business owners. However, in the...
FTC Fines Emailer $350K In Settlement Of Affordable Care Act Spam Suit
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has reached a settlement with what it calls “one of the world’s reputedly biggest spammers,”...
Lawsuit Claims Yelp Manipulated Reviews To Deceive Investors
Throughout its ten year history, Yelp has been sued a number of times for allegedly manipulating reviews to generate ad revenue from merchants....
Wikimedia Foundation Granted Zero Of 304 Content Removal Requests Since 2012
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind Wikipedia, released its first ever transparency report today, claiming it had...
Merchant Sues To Stop Yelp’s “Trustworthy” Review Claims
A substantial number of local business owners are frustrated by (even resentful of) Yelp’s review filter. Now operating under the banner...
Google Faces Thai Criminal Case For Not Shutting Down Blogger
Google’s founders, Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and its entire board have been named as criminal defendants in a case in Thailand. The...
Feds: Amazon Let Kids Buy In-App Goods Without Consent
In January, Apple agreed to refund consumers $32.5 million to settle an FTC complaint that it charged parents for their kids’ in-app...
Google Launches CookieChoices Site To Help Publishers With EU Cookie Compliance
Google has launched a new resource named CookieChoices to help publishers understand the European Union’s cookie compliance regulations....
Google Earns Ad Money Off YouTube Videos Hawking Stolen Credit Cards, Says Watchdog Group
The Digital Citizens Alliance, an internet safety coalition, is calling out Google for allowing videos that promote the sale of stolen and bogus...
The SocialChorus Lesson: Use “Nofollow” In Native Ads, To Avoid Google Penalties
Brand building service SocialChorus has learned a lesson that other native advertising players should also know. Even when you’re focused...
Everything You Need to Know About The Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation
The Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) has been long in the works and will finally be enforced starting on July 1st, 2014. But what is it...
