Former head of Twitter security, Peter Zatkowill star in a key day for the future of the social network when next September 13 it will be presented in the United States Congress.
It will be exactly one month after he made public a series of accusations condemning the company’s security practices and the attempt by the firm founded by jack dorseynow far removed, from misleading the regulatory bodies.
The hearing of Zatko is scheduled for noon on Tuesday, September 13, and is expected to talk about everything.
In the United States Senate the stage is heated. “The accusations of Zatko about common and serious failures in security and interference by foreign state actors on Twitter raise serious concerns,” said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dr. Richard Durbinand the leading Republican senator, Charles Grassley.
“If what he said is true and more accurate, there is a serious security and data privacy risk for Twitter users around the world,” they added.
According to Washington Post, Zatko He has already met privately with people from the Senate Judiciary Committee and other lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
Zatko and the importance of his statement in the Senate
The complaint of Zatko it also generated interest from regulatory bodies in Europe.
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, for example, said they are looking into “all the sayings” of Twitter’s former chief security officer.
In parallel, France’s data watchdog told TechCrunch that it is “investigating” the complaint made by Zatkoand that their investigation could result in “an enforcement order or a sanction” if they find that the social network broke the laws.
Although they did not give amounts, it is estimated that the fine could be up to 4% of the global annual turnover.
Although Twitter did not officially speak on the subject, in an internal statement sent after the latest statements by the former head of security, the CEO of the network, Parag Agrawalsaid those claims are “false” and “riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies.”
A company spokesman speaking to CNNsaid Zatko he was fired from his position at Twitter for “poor performance and ineffective leadership.”
And he added, referring to Elon Muskbut without mentioning it: “The accusations of Zatko and the timing of their appearance appears to be designed to grab attention and inflict harm on Twitter, its customers and shareholders.”
What he said and what he will say about Twitter
Zatko said that the social network violated the agreement it made with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to maintain various security measures after a couple of leaks in 2009.
The former chief security officer also said that the way Twitter measures the number of bot on their platform is misleading, which, if true, would debunk their claims that less than 5 percent of their monthly users are botfake or spam accounts.
This figure is the key in Twitter’s legal battle with Musk.
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