US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

EPIC-Led Group of Law and Technology Experts Urges Ninth Circuit to Rule that Social Media Companies’ Addictive Technology Is Not Protected Expression

March 7, 2025

• Platform Accountability & Governance

• Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

• The First Amendment

• Updates

EPIC: Privacy Lawsuit Against Clearview AI is About Protecting People’s Rights, Not Silencing Clearview AI’s “Speech”

November 5, 2024

• Consumer Privacy

• Democracy & Free Speech

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

Dada et al. v. NSO Group Amicus Brief of Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, National Newspaper Association, National Press Photographers Association, Online News Association, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Society of Professional Journalists, and the New York Times Company

September 3, 2024

• Surveillance Oversight

Dada et al. v. NSO Group Amicus Brief of Prof. Cassandra Burke Robertson

September 3, 2024

• Surveillance Oversight

Dada et al v. NSO Group Amicus Brief of Microsoft, Google, GitHub, LinkedIn, Trend Micro, and Big Cloud Consultants LLC

September 3, 2024

• Surveillance Oversight

Dada et al. v. NSO Group Amicus Brief of Electronic Frontier Foundation

September 3, 2024

• Surveillance Oversight

• Amicus Briefs

Dada et al. v. NSO Group Plaintiffs-Appellants Opening Brief

September 3, 2024

• Surveillance Oversight

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 Revives Case Challenging Google’s Bait-and-Switch Data Practices

August 21, 2024

Yesterday the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion in Calhoun v. Google LLC reversing a lower court decision in favor of Google. The Court sent the case back to the district court to evaluate whether a “reasonable” user of the Google Chrome browser should be presumed to have consented to certain misleading and convoluted privacy policies. EPIC submitted an amicus brief in the case urging the court to hold that users who specifically opted out of syncing their information from Chrome with their Google accounts did not consent to the more invasive data practices disclosed in Google’s general privacy policy.

• Consumer Privacy

• 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