Current Litigation Trends Will Continue to Shape Standards for Technology Platform Safety, According to New Law360 Article
Published by Law360
Litigation is shaping how major technology platforms are designed and run to ensure user safety, data privacy, and compliance in response to the expectations of users, public interest groups, and governments. Recent cases and rulings have sought to establish accountability for how platforms actually function and are governed – as reflected by the underlying data.
In a new Law360 article, Principals Paul Hinton and Farooq Javed and Senior Associate James Sappenfield analyze recent cases that illustrate the scope of potential liability technology platforms face when confronting regulation by litigation. State Attorneys General, enforcement agencies, and private plaintiff firms are applying established statutory frameworks and tort law to scrutinize how platforms design, govern, and operate their systems, with liability turning on how those systems perform in practice.
The full article, “The Role of Operational Data in Tech Platform Liability Suits,” is available below.
