The Antiterrorism Act (ATA) enables injured parties to sue “any person who aids and abets, by knowingly providing substantial assistance, . . . an act of international terrorism [committed by a designated foreign terrorist organization].” In the Supreme Court’s 2023 Twitter, Inc. v. Taamneh decision, the Justices considered the elements of a secondary liability claim under the ATA. While ultimately resolving the case based on the...
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U.S. legislators are taking aim at technology companies for their role in the nation’s fentanyl crisis. Members of Congress recently introduced the Cooper Davis Act, which would require electronic communications service providers to report evidence of illicit fentanyl, methamphetamine, and counterfeit drug crimes on their platforms to the Drug Enforcement Administration. For the first time, such companies would be obligated to report suspected...
Police departments often adopt new surveillance technologies that make mistakes, produce unintended effects, or harbor unforeseen problems. Sometimes the police try a new surveillance technology and later abandon it due to a lack of success, community resistance, or both. Critics have identified many problems with these tools: racial bias, privacy violations, opacity, secrecy, and undue corporate influence, to name a few. A different framework...