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Section 230 Protects Newspaper’s Removal of User Comments–Affleck v. Harvard Crimson

Eric Goldman

The court says breezily that “As Section 230s barrier to suit is evident from the face of Affleck’s complaint, regardless of the content of his posts, the Crimson is immune from Affleck’s state and federal constitutional claims, as well as claims under federal law.” 2025 WL 330577 (D.

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Emerging Areas of Legal Practice: How Technology Has an Impact

Martindale-Avvo

Learn about some of the big technology issues that are trending AOPs for 2025, and how these are developing into important practice areas for lawyers. There are a few proposed federal laws to manage deepfakes, but so far there is no comprehensive piece of legislation.

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Catching Up on the Heavyweight Scraping Battle Between X and Bright Data (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

Here, Bright Data has alleged many antitrust theories, under many state and federal laws. Regardless, this case has all the elements of a heavyweight legal fight, and it will be a case to watch closely in 2025 (and probably beyond). Maybe one or two will stick.

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White House Releases Implementation Plan for the National Cybersecurity Strategy

Inside Privacy

OMB (CISA, GSA, ONCD) Modernize FCEB technology, prioritizing Federal efforts to eliminate legacy systems which are costly to maintain and difficult to defend. Fiscal Year 2025 Q1 1.1.3 CISA (NIST, NSF, SRMAs) Scale public-private partnerships to drive development and adoption of secure-by-design and secure-by-default technology.

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CPPA Proposed Rulemaking Package Part 2 – Automated Decision-Making Technology

Debevoise Data Blog

The Draft Regulations note several federal law preemptions, including for entities and data subject to HIPAA, entities and data subject to the FCRA, and data subject to the GLBA. The formal public comment has been further extended to February 19, 2025. To subscribe to the Data Blog, please click here.

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National Security Update: DOJ Unveils Rules Restricting Sensitive Bulk Data Transfers

Debevoise Data Blog

company and its foreign subsidiaries and transactions required by federal law or international agreements. Alleged violators may seek additional judicial review in federal district court. government activities, routine banking and investment financial services, transactions within a U.S.