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Across the FieldAmicus Brief in Henderson v. Source for Public Data
Aaron Rieke, Natasha Duarte, Urmila Janardan, and Logan Koepke
Amicus briefThis amicus brief urges the Fourth Circuit to preserve critical and longstanding obligations under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) that require consumer reporting agencies to ensure the accuracy of records used to make decisions about people’s access to housing, employment, credit, and other basic needs. We argue that Section 230 should not preempt these accuracy obligations, which do not treat consumer reporting agencies as the publishers or speakers of third-party content. This brief was filed together with our partners at the National Consumer Law Center, American Civil Liberties Union, National Housing Law Project, National Employment Law Project, and National Low Income Housing Coalition.
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In this brief, we explain how the Government’s remarkable technical assertions — that mobile device forensic tools can only extract all data off of a cellphone and cannot perform a narrower search — are incorrect.
PolicingWe filed a legal brief arguing that Section 230 should not fully immunize Facebook’s Ad Platform from liability under California and D.C. law prohibiting discrimination. We describe how Facebook itself, independently of its advertisers, participates in the targeting and delivery of financial services ads based on gender and age.
Across the FieldWe filed a legal brief arguing that Section 230 should not fully immunize Facebook’s Ad Platform from liability under a California antidiscrimination law.
Across the FieldWe filed a legal brief in Onuoha v. Facebook about Section 230 and Facebook’s Ad Platform.
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