New Delhi: A parliamentary panel questioned top Twitter officials over a whistleblower’s revelations on its India operations, and gave them a dressing-down as their replies on issues of data security and privacy were “not satisfactory”, sources said.
The officials from the company, however, refuted the whistleblower’s allegations and denied there was any data security breach in India, the sources told news agency Press Trust of India.
Top Twitter executives, including senior director (public policy) Samiran Gupta and director (public policy) Shagufta Kamran, deposed before the parliamentary standing committee on information and technology chaired by senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday, August 26.
The panel questioned them about a complaint filed by former Twitter security chief Peiter Zatko, who alleged that the Indian government forced the social media company to hire an individual who was a “government agent” and likely had access to sensitive user data as part of their job.
The Twitter officials, however, denied any such thing having happened, sources in the panel told PTI.
The members also questioned Twitter’s officials if their data security policies is in sync with local policies and with the single global privacy policy.
They asked how Twitter handles conflicts in national privacy policies of different countries, with the sources saying the executives didn’t give satisfactory replies.
They also evaded questions about data safety and privacy, a member...
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