A whistleblower alleges in a complaint filed in October that there are still serious privacy and data security concerns at Twitter, according to a January 25 Bloomberg article.
The whistleblower alleges that “[a]s many as 4,000 company employees could access an internal function nicknamed ‘GodMode’ that allows them to take over private accounts and tweet – or delete tweets from them,” the article states. The whistleblower complaint “was shared with the Justice Department (DOJ), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and some members of Congress.” According to the article, the complaint was shared with Bloomberg by an anonymous congressional staffer.
The complaint alleges: “Twitter does not have the capability to log which, if any, engineers use or abuse GodMode.” Nonprofit law firm Whistleblower Aid filed the lawsuit on behalf of the whistleblower.
The whistleblower is remaining anonymous, but according to the article, they worked at Twitter as an engineer when they filed the complaint. They no longer work at Twitter, “according to a person familiar with the matter who requested anonymity because of sensitivities involved,” the article states. The staffer who shared the complaint with Bloomberg also said that the whistleblower “briefed a congressional committee this month about transgressions at the company that continued under [Elon] Musk.”
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