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#Update
@SFLCin has written a letter to @ShashiTharoor and the Standing Committee on IT to investigate whistleblower #Mudge’s revelations.
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Through the letter we have urged the Standing Committee, to investigate the impact of these revelations on Indian users and their rights.

Twitter’s former security chief, Peiter
“Mudge” Zatko, recently alleged that the platform misled regulators, and violated security and privacy standards.
edition.cnn.com/2022/08/23/tec…

He stated that @Twitter's cybersecurity and data security systems, which were subjected to a Federal Trade Commission investigation in 2011, suffer from gross inadequacy.

The complaint states that Twitter employees have access to personal user data which they do not need for the purposes of their operations, and that Twitter mined the data for targeted advertisements and marketing campaigns.

The complainant also refers to the weakness of the platform’s internal data systems, the insufficiency of which could trigger the collapse of the platform to a point from which its recovery was uncertain.

The platform is also charged by Mr. Zatko of “deliberate ignorance” of the issue of spam bots, out of the company’s leadership concerns regarding the impact of
introducing adequate measures on the company’s “image and valuation”.

Specifically naming India, the complaint alleges that the Indian Government required “Twitter to hire specific individuals alleged to be spies, who would have had significant access to sensitive data thanks to Twitter’s own lax security controls.”

Allegations have also been made about the company having taken money from “unidentified Chinese entities” for access to data about Chinese users of Twitter, which might have endangered them.

Allegations of the weakness of Twitter’s infrastructure, such that it may lead to a
collapse beyond the point of return, warrants immediate measures to be put in place to avoid this occurrence, in light of the damage it may cause to public discourse, and access.

We have urged the Standing Committee to look into the matter in depth on an urgent basis.
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