Seen at FourthAmendment.com: Twitter deactivated defendant’s account for violation of its terms of service and reported him to NCMEC. Defendant had no reasonable expectation of privacy in the files Twitter had preserved on him. “The Court finds under the circumstances of the case and in light of Twitter’s express zero tolerance policy for child sexual…
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Section 230 Doesn’t Apply to Publication of Private Emails–Crowley v. Faison
Eric Goldman writes: Faison runs the Sacramento chapter of Black Lives Matter (BLM). She received several racist and offensive emails from an email address purporting to be Karra Crowley. Faison posted the emails to BLM’s Facebook page and identified Karra as the sender. Predictably, the blowback against Karra and her family/business was severe, including death threats. Months later, the…
Utah on the cusp of US’s latest comprehensive state privacy law
Joseph Duball writes: Passing a comprehensive state privacy law has proven to be no small task. Doing it in a week’s span is arguably impossible. Yet after just five working days, the Utah Legislature has settled on a law. Senate Bill 227, the Utah Consumer Privacy Act, cleared the Senate Feb. 25 on a 28-0 vote…
Texas Court Blocks ‘Child Abuse’ Investigation For Parents Of Transgender Child
Mason Bissada reports: A local judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked Texas’ Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) from investigating two parents who helped their child seek gender-affirming medical treatment, an early legal blow to Texas’ controversial new policy that frames gender-affirming treatment as “child abuse.” Read more at Forbes and USA Today.