CommLaw Monitor
News and analysis from Kelley Drye’s communications practice group
Section 230 Executive Order Strikes Back at Twitter, But Legal Impact Likely to be Limited
In a move spurred by Twitter’s decision to fact-check a pair of President Trump’s tweets, the president recently signed a multi-pronged “ Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship ” with the claimed intention of…
What Facebook’s Next 20 Years Will Look Like: Is This the Future of US Privacy?
Even in her extensive dissent, FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter labeled the Order “exceptional.” And it is. The terms of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) $5 billion, twenty-year settlement Order reached with…
Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Facebook in Class Action Cy Pres Challenge
On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that Facebook’s $9.5 million settlement of privacy claims did not violate federal rules that require class action settlements to be “fair, reasonable and adequate.” The suit ( Marek…