Keker, Van Nest & Peters attorneys Andy Bruns, Imara McMillan, Amos Espeland, and Courtney Liss filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in a case challenging Texas’s HB 1181, a law that mandates age verification for accessing certain websites. The brief describes how the existing methods of online age verification are ineffective and pose security and privacy risks, and as a result will burden adults’ access to constitutionally protected content.
KVP represents the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), New America’s Open Technology Institute, the Internet Society, and Professors Daniel Weitzner of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Eran Tromer of Boston University, and Sarah Scheffler of Carnegie Mellon University, who are dedicated to preserving open access to information on the internet.
Click here to read the full brief.