Karl Herchenroeder, Associate Editor, is a technology policy journalist for publications including Communications Daily. Born in Rockville, Maryland, he joined the Warren Communications News staff in 2018. He began his journalism career in 2012 at the Aspen Times in Aspen, Colorado, where he covered city government. After that, he covered the nuclear industry for ExchangeMonitor in Washington. You can follow Herchenroeder on Twitter: @karlherk
Biography for Karl HerchenroederRecent Articles by Karl HerchenroederAmazon engages in anticompetitive practices to block rivals from competing fairly, and places unfair constraints on sellers to the detriment of consumers, the FTC and 17 state attorneys general alleged Tuesday in a lawsuit against the platform.Read More >>
The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) doesn’t preempt children from suing Google, YouTube and content creators for violating child privacy laws at the state level, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday in 21-16281.Read More >>
Twitter threatened to sue Meta for allegedly misappropriating Twitter’s trade secrets when building its new text-based social media app, Threads. Meta launched the new app Wednesday and had accumulated more than 70 million users by Friday.Read More >>
A 2018 anti-sex trafficking law that carved out liability protections for the tech industry doesn’t violate the First Amendment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled Friday in docket 1:18-cv-01552.Read More >>
Amazon for years “has knowingly duped” millions of consumers into “unknowingly enrolling” in Amazon Prime, in violation of the FTC Act and the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act (ROSCA), alleged the FTC in a partially redacted fraud complaint Wednesday (docket 2:23-cv-00932) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.Read More >>
Amazon engages in anticompetitive practices to block rivals from competing fairly, and places unfair constraints on sellers to the detriment of consumers, the FTC and 17 state attorneys general alleged Tuesday in a lawsuit against the platform.Read More >>
The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) doesn’t preempt children from suing Google, YouTube and content creators for violating child privacy laws at the state level, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday in 21-16281.Read More >>
Twitter threatened to sue Meta for allegedly misappropriating Twitter’s trade secrets when building its new text-based social media app, Threads. Meta launched the new app Wednesday and had accumulated more than 70 million users by Friday.Read More >>
A 2018 anti-sex trafficking law that carved out liability protections for the tech industry doesn’t violate the First Amendment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled Friday in docket 1:18-cv-01552.Read More >>
Amazon for years “has knowingly duped” millions of consumers into “unknowingly enrolling” in Amazon Prime, in violation of the FTC Act and the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act (ROSCA), alleged the FTC in a partially redacted fraud complaint Wednesday (docket 2:23-cv-00932) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.Read More >>