Steven Yeun, Darren Criss and Dan Lin, chairman of Netflix Film and founder and board chair of Rideback Rise, are slated to speak at The Asian American Foundation’s third annual Heritage Month Summit, which takes place May 2-3 in New York City.
The year’s theme is “Together We Build Power,” putting focus on the power of community and public service within the Aanhpi community, and how it can aid in tackling the root causes of hate and discrimination against AANHPIs.
Over the two day event, almost 1,000 attendees will participate in panels about trends in hate and extremism, civil rights and Aanhpi representation. Programming at the summit includes fireside chats with former associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta; discussions of issues facing the Aanhpi community, including hate and extremism, Aanhpi education and representation in sports led by CBS news correspondent Weijia Jiang, podcast host Pablo Torre and television host Katie Phang...
The year’s theme is “Together We Build Power,” putting focus on the power of community and public service within the Aanhpi community, and how it can aid in tackling the root causes of hate and discrimination against AANHPIs.
Over the two day event, almost 1,000 attendees will participate in panels about trends in hate and extremism, civil rights and Aanhpi representation. Programming at the summit includes fireside chats with former associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta; discussions of issues facing the Aanhpi community, including hate and extremism, Aanhpi education and representation in sports led by CBS news correspondent Weijia Jiang, podcast host Pablo Torre and television host Katie Phang...
- 4/22/2024
- by Jack Dunn
- Variety Film + TV
Washington, Jan 25 (Ians) The US Department of Justice (DOJ) and eight states have sued Google over its alleged monopoly over digital advertising technology products.
Filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the complaint alleged that Google monopolises key digital advertising technologies, collectively referred to as the “ad tech stack”, that website publishers depend on to sell ads and that advertisers rely on to buy ads and reach potential customers.
Website publishers use ad tech tools to generate advertising revenue that supports the creation and maintenance of a vibrant open web, providing the public with unprecedented access to ideas, artistic expression, information, goods and services.
Through this lawsuit, filed late on Tuesday, the DOJ and state Attorneys General seek to restore competition in these important markets and obtain equitable and monetary relief on behalf of the US citizens.
“The complaint alleges that Google has used anticompetitive,...
Filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the complaint alleged that Google monopolises key digital advertising technologies, collectively referred to as the “ad tech stack”, that website publishers depend on to sell ads and that advertisers rely on to buy ads and reach potential customers.
Website publishers use ad tech tools to generate advertising revenue that supports the creation and maintenance of a vibrant open web, providing the public with unprecedented access to ideas, artistic expression, information, goods and services.
Through this lawsuit, filed late on Tuesday, the DOJ and state Attorneys General seek to restore competition in these important markets and obtain equitable and monetary relief on behalf of the US citizens.
“The complaint alleges that Google has used anticompetitive,...
- 1/25/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
Updated with Epic Games statement: Epic Games has agreed to pay a total of 520 million in two settlements with the Federal Trade Commission over allegations the Fortnite creator violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, and that it used design tricks to dupe millions of players into making unintentional purchases.
As part of a proposed federal court order filed by the Department of Justice on behalf of the FTC, Epic will pay a 275 million for violating the privacy reg — the largest penalty ever obtained for violating an FTC rule, the agency said.
Separately, the game maker will pay 245 million under a proposed administrative order to refund consumers for its so called “dark patterns” billing practices. The FTC called this the largest refund amount in a gaming case, and its largest administrative order in history.
“As our complaints note, Epic used privacy-invasive default settings and deceptive interfaces that tricked Fortnite users,...
As part of a proposed federal court order filed by the Department of Justice on behalf of the FTC, Epic will pay a 275 million for violating the privacy reg — the largest penalty ever obtained for violating an FTC rule, the agency said.
Separately, the game maker will pay 245 million under a proposed administrative order to refund consumers for its so called “dark patterns” billing practices. The FTC called this the largest refund amount in a gaming case, and its largest administrative order in history.
“As our complaints note, Epic used privacy-invasive default settings and deceptive interfaces that tricked Fortnite users,...
- 12/19/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
New York, Dec 19 (Ians) The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday said it has reached a 520 million settlement with Epic Games, creator of the popular video game Fortnite, over allegations that the company violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (Coppa) and deployed design tricks, known as dark patterns, to dupe millions of players into making unintentional purchases.
Fortnite made over 9 billion during its first two years in existence.
Epic will pay a 275 million penalty for violating children’s privacy law, change default privacy settings, and pay 245 million in refunds for tricking users into making unwanted charges.
“As our complaints note, Epic used privacy-invasive default settings and deceptive interfaces that tricked Fortnite users, including teenagers and children,” said FTC Chair Lina M. Khan.
“Protecting the public, and especially children, from online privacy invasions and dark patterns is a top priority for the Commission, and these enforcement actions make...
Fortnite made over 9 billion during its first two years in existence.
Epic will pay a 275 million penalty for violating children’s privacy law, change default privacy settings, and pay 245 million in refunds for tricking users into making unwanted charges.
“As our complaints note, Epic used privacy-invasive default settings and deceptive interfaces that tricked Fortnite users, including teenagers and children,” said FTC Chair Lina M. Khan.
“Protecting the public, and especially children, from online privacy invasions and dark patterns is a top priority for the Commission, and these enforcement actions make...
- 12/19/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Twitter has agreed to pay a 150 million to the Federal Trade Commission for what its chief privacy officer Damien Kieran called “a privacy incident” when email addresses and phone numbers users provided for account security purposes “may have been inadvertently used for advertising.”
The settlement followed a government complaint against the company filed today in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California for misrepresenting its use of consumer data “from at least May of 2013 through at least September of 2019.”
“Specifically, while Twitter represented to users that it collected their telephone numbers and email addresses to secure their accounts, Twitter failed to disclose that it also used user contact information to aid advertisers in reaching their preferred audiences,” violating FTC rules. It said more than 140 million Twitter users provided email addresses or phone numbers “based on Twitter’s deceptive statements that their information would be used to specific purposes related to account security.
The settlement followed a government complaint against the company filed today in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California for misrepresenting its use of consumer data “from at least May of 2013 through at least September of 2019.”
“Specifically, while Twitter represented to users that it collected their telephone numbers and email addresses to secure their accounts, Twitter failed to disclose that it also used user contact information to aid advertisers in reaching their preferred audiences,” violating FTC rules. It said more than 140 million Twitter users provided email addresses or phone numbers “based on Twitter’s deceptive statements that their information would be used to specific purposes related to account security.
- 5/25/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Donald Trump has tested previously held concepts of Oval Office power much like a Jurassic Park raptor testing an electric fence for weaknesses. The aspiring authoritarian has been busy lately, even by his standards: sound-and-fury executive orders that boast of solving the Covid-19 aid stalemate on Capitol Hill, but do nothing but complicate matters with legal questions; jackboot tactics against civil rights demonstrations, showing that he and Attorney General Bill Barr are little more than Bull Connor with a military budget. And the execrable interference with the Postal Service is...
- 8/11/2020
- by Jamil Smith
- Rollingstone.com
The pandemic is a black light on America, bringing our imperfections into sharper relief. One of them is how we elect presidents. As I write, we are planning to do it the same way we always have come November, even though Americans will likely still be sick and dying throughout the country and voters could be risking their lives to cast a ballot. Some officials are trying to find better options for conducting the election; others are trying to stop them.
President Trump complains incessantly about solutions to these problems,...
President Trump complains incessantly about solutions to these problems,...
- 4/8/2020
- by Jamil Smith
- Rollingstone.com
Sending a jolt through a luxurious and excessively polite afternoon in Beverly Hills, veteran journalist Katie Couric delivered a relentless series of hardball questions to Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg on Tuesday.
Speaking in conversation at the sixth annual Vanity Fair New Establishment summit at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Couric’s agenda for the panel, titled Putting a Best Facebook Forward, was unlike its predecessors, which mostly featured jokes about wealth taxes in between sips from mint-infused glass water canteens.
It played like a primetime inquisition, electrifying a sleepy audience taking refuge from the Los Angeles heat after lunch. The conversational volley inspired laughter, gasps and even feedback from the staffer writing teleprompter copy.
Couric immediately went in on Mark Zuckerberg’s just-unveiled plan to protect Facebook users from fake news and state-sponsored attacks ahead of the 2020 election, asking Sandberg if she really believed that...
Speaking in conversation at the sixth annual Vanity Fair New Establishment summit at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Couric’s agenda for the panel, titled Putting a Best Facebook Forward, was unlike its predecessors, which mostly featured jokes about wealth taxes in between sips from mint-infused glass water canteens.
It played like a primetime inquisition, electrifying a sleepy audience taking refuge from the Los Angeles heat after lunch. The conversational volley inspired laughter, gasps and even feedback from the staffer writing teleprompter copy.
Couric immediately went in on Mark Zuckerberg’s just-unveiled plan to protect Facebook users from fake news and state-sponsored attacks ahead of the 2020 election, asking Sandberg if she really believed that...
- 10/22/2019
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
In one of Vanita Gupta’s earliest memories, she is in a McDonald’s in England with her family, being harassed by a group of skinheads. “They were throwing french fries at us and yelling, ‘Go home, Pakis,’” recalls Gupta, whose parents emigrated from India to the United States and then, when she was four, to England. “There was a series of incidents like that that made me acutely aware that my family was always going to be seen as an outsider in a certain way.”
In the four decades since,...
In the four decades since,...
- 3/8/2019
- by Zoe Carpenter
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive; Tom Brady, a co-exec producer on AMC’s forthcoming horror drama NOS4A2, rather than the football player, has scored his latest feature film project. I hear that he is writing Tulia, the film based on book Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town and directed by Seth Gordon.
The film tells the story of the 1999 case that saw 39 men, largely African-American, that were arrested over a drug scandal based on testimony from an unreliable cop. Set in the small Texas town of Tulia, the men were arrested and charged with dealing cocaine based on a federal investigation of corrupt cop Tom Coleman.
The film will explore how Vanita Gupta, who is now President and Chief Executive Officer of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and the NAACP fought to obtain acquittals of the majority of men and centers on issues of racial injustice.
It is produced by Mubina Rattonsey,...
The film tells the story of the 1999 case that saw 39 men, largely African-American, that were arrested over a drug scandal based on testimony from an unreliable cop. Set in the small Texas town of Tulia, the men were arrested and charged with dealing cocaine based on a federal investigation of corrupt cop Tom Coleman.
The film will explore how Vanita Gupta, who is now President and Chief Executive Officer of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and the NAACP fought to obtain acquittals of the majority of men and centers on issues of racial injustice.
It is produced by Mubina Rattonsey,...
- 4/23/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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