The sister of an imprisoned Saudi dissident filed suit against Twitter Tuesday, arguing that it broke the law by letting employees reveal his identity to Saudi agents who then arrested him.
SAN FRANCISCO — The sister of an imprisoned Saudi dissident filed suit against Twitter on Tuesday, arguing that it broke the law by letting employees reveal his identity to Saudi agents who then arrested him.
“Each member of the Saudi Criminal Enterprise participated in a conspiracy to chill anti-authoritarian advocacy by, among other conduct, unlawfully obtaining personal identifying information of political dissidents to identify and target them and kidnapping, torturing, stalking, harassing, threatening, and killing other political dissidents,” the lawsuit says.
But al-Sadhan attorney Jim Walden said that the company’s failures were so glaring that it could be found liable under the theory of “conscious avoidance of criminality.” The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has brought multiple actions against Twitter for security lapses, and its former head of security
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