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Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton

September 23, 2024

Whether a court should apply rational basis review or, instead, strict scrutiny in a facial challenge to a law that requires pornography websites to verify the age of users in order to block kids from accessing pornography.
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Platform Governance Laws & Regulations
- The First Amendment
- Amicus Briefs
Dada et al. v. NSO Group Amicus Brief of Electronic Frontier Foundation

September 3, 2024
- Surveillance Oversight
- Amicus Briefs
Ohio Telecom Association et al. v. FCC and USA (Data Breach Reporting Req’ts)

August 20, 2024
- Communications Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Protection
- Data Security
- Location Tracking
- Amicus Briefs
Dada et al. v. NSO Group

July 31, 2024

computer related crimes such as accessing a protected computer without authorization, can be used by foreign plaintiffs to prosecute foreign defendants who exploit protected computers.
- Intelligence Surveillance
- Surveillance Oversight
- Wiretapping
- Amicus Briefs
Soliman v. Subway Franchisee Advert. Fund Tr., Ltd.

June 4, 2024

Whether the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s (TCPA’s) autodialer restriction covers automated list-based campaign dialers, or if the TCPA only restricts use of dialers that generate telephone numbers.
- Consumer Privacy
- Privacy Laws
- Robocalls
- U.S. Privacy Laws
- Amicus Briefs
Doe v. Grindr

May 20, 2024

Whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act prohibits a lawsuit against a dating app alleging that the app was designed in a dangerous way because it repeatedly matched a high schooler with adults who sexually abused him.
- Consumer Privacy
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Section 230
- Social Media Privacy
- Amicus Briefs
X v. Bonta

March 28, 2024

In a First Amendment challenge to a law that requires social media platforms to disclose information about their existing content moderation practices, what level of scrutiny applies? And can the law be struck down in its entirety based on a tenuous and hypothetical assertion that public or government pressure will lead to companies changing their content moderation practices?
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Platform Governance Laws & Regulations
- The First Amendment
- Amicus Briefs
Howard v. Republican National Committee (RNC)

February 16, 2024

Do Multimedia Messaging Service (“MMS”) messages containing a video and sent without the recipient’s consent constitute a violation of the artificial or prerecorded voice provisions of the TCPA?
- Consumer Privacy
- Robocalls
- Amicus Briefs
Calhoun, et al. v. Google

December 23, 2023

EPIC’s brief supports the Plaintiffs’ arguments that a jury could find that a reasonable user understood Google’s specific heightened privacy promises contained in the Chrome Privacy Notice to mean that Google would not collect the information it expressly promised not to and therefore that Google did not establish the affirmative defense of consent.
- Big Data
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Protection
- Enforcement of Privacy Laws
- Amicus Briefs
McCarthy v. Amazon

December 12, 2023

Whether Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, can be sued under product liability for selling sodium nitrite to minors who used the compound to commit suicide.
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Big Data
- Commercial AI Use
- Consumer Privacy
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Section 230
- Amicus Briefs

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