The Federal Election Commission (FEC) released a draft advisory opinion (draft AO) this week, holding that a nonprofit corporation providing certain cybersecurity services to candidates and political parties are not in-kind...more
10/11/2018
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Good news for internet hosts: NAFTA's replacement, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), will extend the immunity Congress provided with Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA) into...more
10/5/2018
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Recently, in Johnson v. CIA, Chief Judge Colleen McMahon of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York sided with the CIA when she held that the agency was not required to produce classified information in...more
As Congress considers repealing a certain type of statutory immunity for web hosts, a federal appeals court handed Google a victory under the same law. The timing of these events may portend an uncertain future of the...more