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Twitter tells Shashi Tharoor-led panel it follows strict data privacy

Twitter has told a parliamentary panel that follows it follows strict data safety standards and most of the employees do not have access to user data

Parliament panel grills Twitter officials over data security, privacy

A parliamentary panel Friday questioned top Twitter officials over a whistle-blower's revelations on its India operations, and gave them a dressing-down as their replies on issue of data security and privacy were "not satisfactory", sources said. Top Twitter executives including Senior Director (Public Policy) Samiran Gupta, Director (Public Policy) Shagufta Kamran deposed before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information and Technology chaired by senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor. The panel questioned them about the reports on former head of Twitter (security) Peiter Zatko's allegations the microblogging site knowingly allowed the Indian government to place its "agents" on the company payroll where they had "direct unsupervised access to the company's systems and user data". The Twitter officials denied any such thing having happened and refused there was any data security breach in India, sources in the panel said. The members also questioned the social media giant'

Court orders Twitter to give Musk more data on bots in battle over deal

Twitter must turn over information about 9,000 accounts it surveyed last year in hopes of identifying which had human beings attached to them: Court

Asia Cup 2022: Twitter delighted as Shaheen Afridi meets Kohli and Chahal

Asia Cup 2022: In his interaction with Kohli, Afridi said, "Aapke liye dua kar rhe hain kli aapki orm wapas aa jaye ( I have been praying that you get your form back soon)."

LIVE update: After Azad, senior leader RS Chib quits Congress party

Live news updates: Ghulam Nabi Azad on Friday resigned from all party positions, including its primary membership, delivering another blow to the embattled party

Indian-origin Twitter executive Sandeep Pandey departs to join Meta

Twitter recently laid off 30 per cent of employees from its talent acquisition team

US judge rejects Musk's 'absurd' demand to give all Twitter users' data

A US judge has rejected Elon Musk's absurd demand to ask Twitter to hand over all data for approximately 200 million user accounts for the last three years

Twitter brings podcasts to its platform 'Spaces Tab' for audio creators

Twitter has announced to bring podcasts on its platform, integrating them as part of its newly redesigned Spaces Tab for audio creators

Twitter, IRCTC representatives to appear before Parliamentary panel today

According to reports, the IRCTC has more than 10 crore users and it wants to monetise the data

Musk-Twitter suit: Judge orders both parties to produce more documents

A Delaware judge ordered both Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk to turn over more information to opposing lawyers in their tussle over Musk's agreed-to-then-abandoned USD 44 billion deal to acquire the social platform. Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick on Thursday ordered Twitter to provide Musk's attorneys more data regarding the company's estimates that less than 5 per cent of the accounts on its platform are fake. The judge also rejected Musk's attempts to shield details about analyses he used in his attempt to terminate the deal. That work was done by data scientists who examined live-feed information from Twitter about public user accounts to test the company's daily-user counts. Musk claims that Twitter has failed to provide enough detail about the number of fake accounts on its platform, and argues that up to 30 per cent of Twitter's "monetizable daily active users," or mDAU, could be spam or bot accounts. Twitter says the mDAU metric helps it measure the number of accoun

Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko to testify at US Congess on Sep 13

Twitter whisleblower Peiter "Mudge" Zatko is set to testify at US Congess on September 13 about allegation he leveled against the Parag Agrawal-led micro-blogging platform

Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko to testify before US Senate on Sept 13

The committee said it had subpoenaed Zatko, the company's former security chief, to appear a day after he went public with allegations that Twitter has failed to adequately protect data

Elon Musk hits back at Tesla customer over criticism of FSD software

Musk has said the company will increase the price of its FSD software to $15,000 after its wide release

EU watchdogs begin privacy probe into Twitter after whistleblower report

Twitter is now facing privacy probes in the European Union (EU) after the whistleblower complaint from its former head of security, Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, created a storm worldwide

High unemployment rates in lower, mid income countries after Covid: Study

In contrast, during the global economic crisis of 2008-2009, higher-income nations suffered more from the recession than did lower-income nations

Twitter staff exodus accelerates amid Musk battle, attrition hits 18.3%

Twitter Chief Executive Parag Agrawal moved to reassure employees on Wednesday that Zatko's accusations were foundationally, technically and historically inaccurate

US securities regulators question Twitter on how it counts fake accounts

U.S. securities regulators are questioning Twitter about how it counts fake accounts on its platform. The Securities and Exchange Commission in June asked the company about its methodology for calculating the false or spam accounts and "the underlying judgments and assumptions used by management. The agency's Division of Corporation Finance made the request in a June 15 letter, shortly before Tesla CEO Elon Musk raised the issue as grounds to back out of a deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion. Such questions can be routine, and it wasn't clear whether the SEC has opened a formal investigation into Twitter's fake accounts. The SEC wouldn't comment Wednesday; Twitter didn't immediately reply to a request for comment. The law firm Wilson Sonsini of Palo Alto, California, replied in a June 22 letter saying the company believes it adequately disclosed the methodology in its annual report filed for 2021. The letter says that Twitter makes its estimates of false accounts with an internal

Twitter CEO tells staff whistleblower's claims are 'inaccurate' at meeting

Twitter General Counsel Sean Edgett also told employees the company reached out to various agencies around the world before the news broke.

Twitter backs spam account methodology in response to SEC letter

U.S. securities regulators are questioning Twitter about how it calculates the number of fake accounts on its platform. The Securities and Exchange Commission in June asked the company about the methodology for calculating the false or spam accounts and "the underlying judgments and assumptions used by management. The agency's Division of Corporation Finance made the request in a June 15 letter, shortly before Tesla CEO Elon Musk raised the issue as grounds to back out of a deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion. Such questions can be routine, and it wasn't clear whether the SEC has opened a formal investigation into Twitter's fake accounts. Messages were left Wednesday seeking comment from the agency and Twitter. The law firm Wilson Sonsini of Palo Alto, California, replied in a June 22 letter saying the company believes it adequately disclosed the methodology in its annual report filed for 2021. The letter says that Twitter makes its estimates of false accounts with an internal re

Twitter merges misinformation, spam prevention teams amid battle over bots

The new group is set to be called 'Health Products and Services (HPS)', and will be led by Ella Irwin, Twitter's VP of Product