https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2021/05/section-230-preempts-fair-credit-reporting-act-fcra-claims-henderson-v-source-for-public-data.htm Sat, 29 May 2021 06:01:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2021/05/section-230-preempts-fair-credit-reporting-act-fcra-claims-henderson-v-source-for-public-data.htm#comment-2988 Sat, 29 May 2021 06:01:52 +0000 https://blog.ericgoldman.org/?p=22629#comment-2988 […] The law is kind of twisted. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act shields Interactive Computer Services like Facebook from being sued for content they did not create. In this case, a person tried to sue a company that publishes aggregated data from credit bureaus (basically a version of a credit bureau) for not following the rules of the Fair Credit Reporting Act by correcting faulty data. The company’s defense was that they didn’t create the data, so you can’t sue them. Congress (or the Supremes) need to clean up this mess – and it is and has been a mess forever, but that ruling is just not right to the consumer. They have ZERO recourse, according to this court. Credit: Professor Eric Goldman […]

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