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Meta’s Attorney Said We Were Wrong About Section 230. But It Is Meta That Is Wrong, Not Us.
During the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s hearing last Friday on whether Meta should be able to escape a lawsuit alleging it designed its platforms to be addictive to minors, two justices asked Meta’s attorney how Meta’s reading of Section 230 can be reconciled with the one EPIC described in our amicus brief. Our brief, joined by several civil society organizations and a team of prominent law professors, explains how the Ninth Circuit, which hears the bulk of Section 230 cases, has limited Section 230 to liability that forces companies to either abandon content moderation, censor users, or stop hosting user-generated content—the so-called “grim choice” or “moderator’s dilemma.”
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Boston Bar Association: Privacy Law in Massachusetts: the Massachusetts Data Privacy Act and Beyond
EPIC Deputy Director Caitriona Fitzgerald will speak on a panel at the Boston Bar Association’s annual Privacy, Cybersecurity & Digital Law Conference.
19 Nov. 12:00 PM EDT
The Fight to Protect Our Phones: A Multi-Prong Approach to Spyware Reform
EPIC's latest report shines a light on the threats posed by the remote deployment of spyware by government actors, without user knowledge, to facilitate complete access to and control of an infected device and outlines solutions to the spyware problem.
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