Facebook Still Can’t Dismiss Sex Trafficking Victims’ Lawsuit in Texas State Court
…Code Ann. § 22.221; see also Tex. R. App. P. 52. In the first petition filed in our case numbers 14-19-00845-CV and 14-19-00847-CV, Facebook asks this court to compel the…
Ninth Circuit Reinstates Decade-Old Lawsuit Against Facebook For Tracking Logged-Out Users–In re Facebook Internet Tracking
Users sued Facebook in 2012 alleging it improperly tracked users’ browsing while they were logged out of Facebook. Facebook apparently included code in its “like” button on third party websites…
The EARN IT Act Partially Repeals Section 230, But It Won’t Help Children
…entire U.S. Code. 22 pages of the bill are a global find-and-replace of the existing code to make that change. Bill Summary The bill repeals Section 230’s immunity for publishing…
Top Internet Law Developments of 2019
…my works from this year: Why Section 230 Is Better Than the First Amendment, 95 Notre Dame L. Rev. Reflection 34 (2019) Internet Immunity and the Freedom to Code, 62…
Java API Classes as Fictional Characters―A Proposal for Google v. Oracle (Guest Blog Post)
…Java programming language at issue in Oracle v. Google (as styled in the lower courts). However, when it comes to the code for programming objects, such as the code for…
Eric Goldman’s Comments to the California DOJ Draft Regulations for the Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) (Part 3 of 3)
…11, 2019. These comments represent only my views and not the views of my employer or any third party. The “Average” Consumer Echoing California Civil Code 1798.185(a)(5), the regulations use…
Some Lessons Learned from the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), 18 Months In (Part 2 of 3)
…possibly changes to the business’ databases or software code, and possibly differences in the business’ consumer-facing disclosures. This will all cost money. Worse, the costs from state-by-state compliance costs probably…
Resetting the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)…with 2 Weeks To Go! (Part 1 of 3)
…the hammer. The CCPA (in California Civil Code 1798.185(b)) says that the “Attorney General may adopt additional regulations as necessary to further the purposes of this title.” The DOJ’s initial…
Top Myths About Content Moderation
…Section 230 Is Better Than the First Amendment (2019). * The Complicated Story of FOSTA and Section 230 (2019). * Internet Immunity and the Freedom to Code (2019). * The…
New Paper Explains Why Technologists Should Rally Behind Section 230
At the request of James Grimmelmann, and with his editorial support, I wrote an essay for the Communications of the ACM called “Internet Immunity and the Freedom to Code.” The…