Technology,
International Law,
Data Privacy
Aug. 10, 2022
Twitter employee sold user’s information to Saudis, jury finds
“Ahmad Abouammo violated a sacred trust to keep private personal information from Twitter’s customers and sold private customer information to a foreign government,” said U.S. Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds.
A jury found that a former Twitter employee betrayed “a sacred trust” by selling users’ information to Saudi Arabia, U.S. Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds said in a news release after the verdict Tuesday following four days of deliberation.
Ahmad Abouammo was convicted by an 11-person federal jury on six of the 11 felonies charged, including acting as an agent of a foreign government, wire fraud, honest services fraud, money laundering and falsi...
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