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    Leo Burnett’s Mark Tutssel to preside over LIA’s Non-Traditional Jury

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    LONDON --

    Mark Tutssel, global chief creative officer of Leo Burnett Worldwide and creative chairman of Publicis Communications, will be the Non-Traditional Jury president for the 2016 London International Awards (LIA). 

    “It is an immense privilege to lead the LIA’s Non-Traditional Jury,” said Tutssel. “I’m thrilled to be tasked with the mission to seek and honor revolutionary ideas fueled by bravery, resulting from the alchemy of creativity and technology. To move our industry forward, we need to encourage and celebrate fresh ideas–the unexpected and the unconventional–that have created dynamic business transformations.”

    The Non-Traditional Jury seeks to recognize the finest and most inventive entries making use of environment and experience to get across their message.

    Named to serve as judges on the Non-Traditional Jury are: Jeremy Craigen, global CCO, Innocean Worldwide, Seoul; Jim Elliott, global CCO, Arnold Worldwide, Boston; Dimitri Guerassimov, CCO, Marcel, Paris; Chris Gurney, regional ECD, ADK Global, Singapore; Guido Heffels, CCO, Heimat, Berlin; Josh Moore, CEO/CCO, Y&R Group NZ, Auckland; Karin Onsager-Birch, CCO, FCB West, San Francisco; Josefine Richards, creative director, INGO, Stockholm; Ajab Samrai, CCO, Ogilvy & Mather Japan GK, Tokyo; and Luiz Sanches, partner/CCO, Almap BBDO, São Paulo, Brazil.

    LIA entry deadline is July 13. Work submitted must be broadcast, published or released in a commercial environment with client approval between 1st July 1, 2015, and July 31, 2016.

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    Supreme Court Allows Multibillion-Dollar Class Action Lawsuit To Proceed Against Meta

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    The Supreme Court is allowing a multibillion-dollar class action investors' lawsuit to proceed against Facebook parent Meta, stemming from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm.

    The justices heard arguments in November in Meta's bid to shut down the lawsuit. On Friday, they decided that they were wrong to take up the case in the first place.

    The high court dismissed the company's appeal, leaving in place an appellate ruling allowing the case to go forward.

    Investors allege that Meta did not fully disclose the risks that Facebook users' personal information would be misused by Cambridge Analytica, a firm that supported Donald Trump 's first successful Republican presidential campaign in 2016.

    Inadequacy of the disclosures led to two significant price drops in the price of the company's shares in 2018, after the public learned about the extent of the privacy scandal, the investors say.

    Meta spokesman Andy Stone said the company was disappointed by the court's action. "The plaintiff's claims are baseless and we will continue to defend ourselves as this case is considered by the District Court," Stone said in an emailed statement.

    Meta already has paid a $5.1 billion fine and reached a $725 million privacy settlement with users.

    Cambridge Analytica had ties to Trump political strategist Steve Bannon. It had paid a Facebook app developer for access to the personal information of about 87 million Facebook users. That data was then used to target U.S. voters during the 2016 campaign.

    The lawsuit is one of two high court cases involving class-action lawsuits against tech companies. The justices also are wrestling with whether to shut down a class action against Nvidia.... Read More

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