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it's not the end for area just yet I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update the streaming television service Aereo is still fighting to stay alive and this time it has a new legal argument since the Supreme Court says it acts like a cable company it wants to have access to the same content license deal as cable companies Aereo submitted that argument to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and if you're new to all this drama well here's a quick explanation area provided a unique service you could pay the company about ten dollars a month to get access to free over-the-air local broadcast stations so instead of you need to buy a digital antenna and hook it up Aereo just handled your antenna on its property and it beamed the content to you over the internet and it used the digital antenna loophole to not pay retransmission fees to the networks CBS the parent company of cnet was among several broadcasters that sue dario for not paying those fees but two weeks ago it all came to an end when the Supreme Court said that even though Aereo has this unique spin on its streaming it needed to follow the same rules as a cable company and pay licensing fees to the networks but streaming services were never considered cable companies before so that ruling gives Aereo a new technicality to argue if the court says Aereo is a cable system then Aereo could take a new form and consumers may have another choice for tuning in to local TV now while Aereo keeps up that fight and Facebook is facing some legal drama of its own the US government may weigh in on facebook's controversial and secretive emotional manipulation research that was conducted on nearly 700,000 users two years ago Senator Mark Warner of Virginia is asking the federal trade commission to investigate how Facebook handled that experiment and whether there needs to be rules or oversight put in place for future tests on users the Electronic Privacy Information Center also filed a formal complaint with the FTC over how Facebook conducted this study the FTC is the top agency to oversee consumer privacy in the US and it has gone after facebook before regarding how it handles our data in addition regulators in the UK say they were investigating facebook if it violated any of their data protection laws with the study in other facebook news you'll see new types of ads on the social network within a Facebook advertisement and app maker can sell in-app goods so that means instead of just seeing an ad for a game you can see an ad that lets you instantly purchase a power up for that game that's your tech news update you can get more details on these stories at cnet com and be sure to follow along on Twitter from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey