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Some New Data on Age Authentication Balk Rates
By Eric Goldman
Created by ChatGPT May 2026 The issue is: if a website imposes a government-compelled age authentication wall, what percentage of users will stop at the authentication wall, either because the…
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
More Data on Online Age Authentication Balk Rates
By Eric Goldman
Created by ChatGPT May 2026 In a prior post, I surveyed the rates at which consumers do not complete online age authentication processes, what I call the “balk” rate. There…
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
Salesforce Still Can’t Avoid Tertiary Liability FOSTA Claims–GG v. Salesforce
By Eric Goldman
This is one of numerous FOSTA cases seeking to hold Salesforce liable for providing vendor services to Backpage. I describe these as “tertiary liability” cases because Salesforce’s involvement is three…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Backpage founders and executives sentenced to 5 and 10 years, well below what federal prosecutors' urged
I flagged here last week some issues surrounding the federal sentencing of the persons who founded and helped run the website Backpage. This AP article reports on how these issues…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Lots of notable front page sentencing issues in next week's sentencing of Backpage
I have not closely followed the legal sagas that have surrounded the website Backpage, which was the huge classified advertising website shut down and seized by federal law enforcement in…
Criminal
Lots of notable front page sentencing issues in next week’s sentencing of Backpage
I have not closely followed the legal sagas that have surrounded the website Backpage, which was the huge classified advertising website shut down and seized by federal law enforcement in…
ImmigrationProf Blog
From the Bookshelves: Taking Down Backpage: Fighting the World’s Largest Sex Trafficker by Maggie Krell
Taking Down Backpage: Fighting the World’s Largest Sex Trafficker by Maggie KrellHere is the publisher's description of the book:"Insider details from the takedown of Backpage, the world’s largest sex trafficker,…
ImmigrationProf Blog
From the Bookshelves: Taking Down Backpage: Fighting the World’s Largest Sex Trafficker by Maggy Krell
Taking Down Backpage: Fighting the World’s Largest Sex Trafficker by Maggy KrellHere is the publisher's description of the book;"For almost a decade, Backpage.com was the world’s largest sex trafficking operation. Seven…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
FOSTA Signed into Law, Amends CDA Section 230 to Allow Enforcement against Online Providers for Knowingly Facilitating Sex Trafficking
Today, the President signed H.R. 1865, the “Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 2017” (commonly known as “FOSTA”). The law is intended to limit the…
International Financial Law Prof Blog
Justice Department Leads Effort to Seize Backpage.Com, the Internet’s Leading Forum for Prostitution Ads, and Obtains 93-Count Federal Indictment
The Justice Department seized Backpage.com, the Internet’s leading forum for prostitution ads, including ads depicting the prostitution of children. Additionally, seven individuals have been charged in a 93-count federal indictment…