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Privacy Law: Status of Legal Practice Area in 2025

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For lawyers, this is an opportunity to provide more complex legal services in 2025. The history of privacy law The roots of privacy law in the U.S. These few federal laws apply to only some kinds of information. In recent years, most of the advances in privacy law have happened at the state level.

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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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Maturing Compliance with the Bulk Sensitive Data Rule (Data Security Program) before the July 8, 2025 Safe Harbor Expires

Debevoise Data Blog

Part 202), and July 8, 2025, when the recently-announced good-faith safe harbor expires. October 6, 2025: comply with subpart J and 202.1103 and 202.1104. All eyes are on the DOJ Bulk Sensitive Data Rule (28 C.F.R. national security. national security. According to DOJ, this is so that the private sector U.S.

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Emerging Areas of Legal Practice: How Technology Has an Impact

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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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What is a “Social Media Platform”?–NetChoice v. Uthmeier

Eric Goldman

Baffled by the argument, the court notes (emphasis added): The defendants also note that Florida Statutes 501.2041(9) and 106.072(5) say the Florida provisions cannot be enforced to the extent inconsistent with federal law and 47 U.S.C. May 22, 2025). Uthmeier appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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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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Verizon and Its Cloud Vendor Must Face Lawsuit for Reporting “CSAM” That Wasn’t – Lawshe v. Verizon (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

Thats the basis for a recent opinion from a Florida federal district court that could have major implications for online services CSAM detection and reporting practices. 2025 WL 660778 (M.D. Verizon (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. These days nothing is. Case citation: Lawshe v.

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