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Ninth Circuit Recognizes Section 230 Not a Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card for Tech Companies That Allegedly Lie to Users

August 22, 2024
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Section 230
- Updates
Ninth Circuit Strikes Down Portion of California AADC but Leaves the Rest Intact for Now

August 16, 2024
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Platform Governance Laws & Regulations
- Privacy Laws
- The First Amendment
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
- Updates
Utah Federal District Court Beats Back NetChoice’s Typically Overbroad Section 230 Arguments

July 25, 2024
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Platform Governance Laws & Regulations
- Updates
Ninth Circuit Signals Mixed Bag for Litigants in NetChoice v. Bonta and X v. Bonta

July 18, 2024
- Consumer Privacy
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Platform Governance Laws & Regulations
- The First Amendment
- Updates
SCOTUS Will Hear Texas Age-Gating Case

July 2, 2024

This morning, the Supreme Court granted cert in a case challenging the constitutionality of a Texas law that requires users to verify their ages before accessing websites where more than one-third of the available material is sexually explicit.
- Age Assurance
- Children's Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Protection
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Platform Governance Laws & Regulations
- Privacy Laws
- Proposed U.S. Legislation
- Social Media Privacy
- The First Amendment
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
- Updates
Supreme Court Deals Blow to Big Tech’s Campaign to Immunize Itself from Regulation

July 1, 2024

The Supreme Court’s decision in the NetChoice cases is a huge loss for NetChoice. NetChoice's shoot-for-the-moon strategy failed miserably. The Big Tech trade group sought a pronouncement that platform design choices are wholly protected expression, but the Court refused to take the bait. Instead, the Court took the approach that EPIC advocated in its amicus brief: to the extent that the decision recognizes any protected editorial judgment for platforms’ decisions about whether and how to display content, it is narrowly confined to decisions that reflect a company’s judgements about the content, and does not include content-neutral design decisions.
- Children's Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Protection
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Platform Governance Laws & Regulations
- Privacy Laws
- Proposed U.S. Legislation
- Social Media Privacy
- The First Amendment
- U.S. Privacy Laws
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
- Updates
SCOTUS Finds No Standing for Plaintiffs in Murthy v. Missouri First Amendment Jawboning Case

June 26, 2024
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- The First Amendment
- Updates
Ninth Circuit Agrees with EPIC: Judges Must Apply a Narrow, Duties-Based Section 230 Analysis to Each Claim in a Lawsuit

May 21, 2024
- Consumer Privacy
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Updates
In Doe v. Grindr, EPIC Urges Ninth Circuit to Continue Using Its Narrow, Nuanced Section 230 Approach

May 20, 2024
- Consumer Privacy
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Updates
EPIC Tells Ninth Circuit That X Has To Do More Than Assert Hypothetical Harm To Strike Down California Disclosure Law

March 28, 2024
- Access to Information
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Platform Governance Laws & Regulations
- The First Amendment
- Updates

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