Federal Judge Says FBI Obtained Twitter Employee's Emails Illegally

Federal Judge Says FBI Obtained Twitter Employee's Emails Illegally

2 years ago
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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210620/14050147027/federal-judge-says-fbi-obtained-twitter-employees-emails-illegally.shtml

In late 2019, the federal government indicted a Twitter employee, accusing him of acting as an agent of Saudi government. The allegations were pretty ugly.

Defendants Ahmad Abouammo, Ali Alzabarah, and Ahmed Almutairi were charged by Indictment on November 19, 2019 for acting as agents of the government of Saudi Arabia without notification to the Attorney General as required by law. Abouammo and Alzabarah, while employees at Twitter, accessed without authorization and provided to officials of the government of Saudi Arabia nonpublic information about Twitter users that were of interest to the government of Saudi Arabia, including dissidents and critics of the government.