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The First Amendment & Platform Regulation

August 5, 2024

Regulating online platforms sometimes implicates First Amendment concerns for users' speech and association rights.
- The First Amendment
The First Amendment

July 22, 2024

Regulating online platforms sometimes implicates First Amendment concerns for users' speech and association rights.
- The First Amendment
SCOTUS Finds No Standing for Plaintiffs in Murthy v. Missouri First Amendment Jawboning Case

June 26, 2024
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- The First Amendment
- Updates
Judge Adopts Dangerously Overbroad View of First Amendment That Could Threaten Privacy Laws Nationwide

September 19, 2023

The case, brought by big tech advocacy group Netchoice, threatens the viability of existing and future privacy legislation, including efforts to minimize the amount of information tech companies collect and use for targeted advertising and surveillance.
- Children's Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Protection
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Platform Governance Laws & Regulations
- Privacy Laws
- The First Amendment
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
- Updates
EPIC Amicus Brief Urges Court to Recognize First Amendment Right to Livestream the Police

November 16, 2021
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Updates
Supreme Court to Decide Whether the First Amendment Protects Donor Privacy

January 11, 2021
- Donor Privacy
- Updates
Professors Hartzog and Richards: Clearview AI Gets Privacy and First Amendment Wrong

September 14, 2020
- Consumer Privacy
- Face Surveillance & Biometrics
- Surveillance Oversight
- Web Scraping
- Updates
Feedback of EPIC to the European Commission regarding the First Periodic Review of the EU-US Data Privacy Frameworks

September 5, 2024
- Comments
DHS Disregards Internal Policies and Avoids Fourth Amendment Protections to Track Your Location

February 8, 2024

The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) published a report on DHS’ use of Commercial Telemetry Data (CTD). CTD, in brief, is data collected from mobile devices by private entities that can form a detailed timeline of the device’s location over the period of time contained in the dataset. The OIG report found that Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the United States Secret Service (USSS) bought and used CTD in violation of their own meager internal privacy policies.
- Intelligence Surveillance
- Surveillance Oversight
- Analysis
EFF: EFF to Supreme Court: Warrantless 24-Hour Video Surveillance Outside Homes Violates Fourth Amendment

November 12, 2021
- Fourth Amendment
- Surveillance Oversight
- News

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