Supreme Court Rules In Favor of Comcast; Class Improperly Certified

By Inside Privacy on April 1, 2013

Last week, in Comcast Corp. et. al. v. Behrend et al., the United States Supreme Court reversed the Third Circuit’s decision to certify a class of Comcast subscribers allegedly harmed due to practices of Comcast in the Philadelphia “cluster” that supposedly lessened competition and resulted in supra-competitive prices. A 5-4…

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Comcast/NBCU Commit To Limit Interactive Advertising in Children’s Programming

By Lindsey Tonsager on January 13, 2011

Posted in Advertising & Marketing, Children's Privacy, Federal Communications Commission, United States

Earlier this week, Comcast — the largest cable operator in the U.S. — stated in a filing to the Federal Communications Commission that it would commit to limit interactive advertising in children’s programming as a condition of obtaining approval of its acquisition of NBC Universal. Specifically, as long as they have control over the program’s advertising…

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