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Ninth Circuit Ruling Will Force Online Platforms That Host User Speech to Fight Lengthy and Costly Lawsuits Before They Are Dismissed Under Section 230

A federal appeals court just made it harder for online services, big and small, to get lawsuits over user speech dismissed early. In California v. Meta, a Ninth Circuit three-judge panel held that the lower court’s denial of Section 230 immunity to Meta is not immediately appealable. The misguided...

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EFF's 19th Annual Cyberlaw Trivia Night

On Thursday, June 10th, the Bay Area's best legal minds gather in support of online freedom as we celebrate our 19th Annual Cyberlaw Trivia Night!This event brings lawyers from law firms and companies together in the ultimate battle of mastery over privacy, free speech, and intellectual property law. EFF’s crack...

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Mobile Ad Software Encourages Location Data Sharing, EFF Report Finds

SAN FRANCISCO – Some software development kits (SDKs) provided by advertising companies to help developers monetize their apps are automatically feeding users’ location data into systems that location data brokers use to track people, an Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) report found. EFF began investigating the location-sharing practices of various...

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Developers: Beware of Ad Libraries that Betray Your Users’ Location Privacy

An EFF investigation identified several advertising software development kits (SDKs) that publicly acknowledge collecting and sharing users’ location by default when embedded in apps granted location permissions. If developers don’t pay close attention to the location-sharing settings of their advertising tools, they could inadvertently expose users’ location to third parties.

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