{"id":10509,"date":"2022-09-15T20:41:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T18:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2022\/09\/15\/us-senators-keep-twitter-ceo-accountable-about-whistleblower-claims\/"},"modified":"2022-09-15T22:06:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T20:06:54","slug":"us-senators-keep-twitter-ceo-accountable-about-whistleblower-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2022\/09\/15\/us-senators-keep-twitter-ceo-accountable-about-whistleblower-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senators Keep Twitter CEO Accountable About Whistleblower Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of US senators wrote a letter to Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal to make him address the whistleblower claim, Engadget reports.<br \/>\nTwitter\u2019s former security chief Pieter \u201cMudge\u201d Zatko has already made some allegations about the company, and Elon Musk is trying to use that claim to terminate the buyout deal. However, Zatko\u2019s claims against the social platform are so bold that even US senators now want the CEO to be accountable.<br \/>\nThe letter was written by the Senate Judiciary Committee leaders and was seen by CNN. Senators are worried that Twitter\u2019s security practices harm US national security. Agrawal needs to respond by September 26th.<br \/>\n\u201cThese allegations raise serious concerns given Twitter\u2019s significant role in the US communications landscape, and its global reach,\u201d Senators Dick Durbin and Chuck Grassley noted in the letter.<br \/>\nTwitter is walking on a razor\u2019s edge<br \/>\nTwitter has so far tried to discredit Zatko\u2019s statements. During Delaware\u2019s court hearing last week, Twitter lawyers described Zatko as a \u201cdisgruntled former employee\u201d and nothing more. The company has also remained silent on most of the allegations Zatko made against them.<br \/>\nOn September 13, Zatko appeared at a Senate hearing and made new allegations against Twitter. He even said that Twitter had a Chinese security agent on its payroll. This is not an allegation that can be ignored early, especially amid the current disputes between US and China over Taiwan. Twitter needs to say why a Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) agent must be on its payroll. The court has allowed Musk to use whistleblower claims in his complaint.<br \/>\nThe company already came under fire by Elon Musk\u2019s lawyers over a $7.75 million severance payment to the former security chief. Musk\u2019s lawyers say paying this money to Zatko could violate the buyout agreement. However, Twitter said they have \u201cbreached none of its representations or obligations under the Agreement.\u201d<br \/>\nThe senators\u2019 letter will also increase the pressure on Twitter, and they need to be accountable for their security practices.<br \/>\nThe post US Senators Keep Twitter CEO Accountable About Whistleblower Claims appeared first on Android Headlines.&#013;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Twitter-Logo-New-scaled-2.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\">&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ndroidheadlines.com&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of US senators wrote a letter to Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal to make him address the whistleblower claim, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":10510,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-kategorii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10511,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10509\/revisions\/10511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}