Grassley calls for Elon Musk 'instantly' repair Twitter safety failures

A senior Republican lawmaker has known as for Elon Musk to account for evident safety points on Twitter after a whistleblower got here out over the matter final summer time.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) despatched a letter to Musk on Tuesday asking that he deal with allegations voiced by former Twitter head of safety Peiter Zatko about workers having direct entry to person information with out correct protections. Grassley and different lawmakers inquired concerning the information being utilized by international brokers for nefarious functions.

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"Within the arms of a international adversary, this information is a gold mine of knowledge that may very well be used in opposition to American pursuits," Grassley wrote. "Twitter has a duty to make sure that the information is protected and does not fall into the arms of international powers."

Grassley requested that Musk assessment Twitter's safety standing, as mentioned by Zatko, and report the outcomes to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Twitter's crew had an occasion of inner battle previously after the FBI claimed that a minimum of one worker at Twitter had affiliations with the Chinese language Communist Social gathering, based on Zatko. Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal had been invited to testify earlier than the Committee in September however declined to take action.

Musk has not responded to Grassley's request as of Wednesday.

Zatko filed a Securities and Alternate Fee whistleblower criticism in July, claiming that Twitter didn't take correct motion to uphold its 2011 settlement with the Federal Commerce Fee for failing to safeguard person data and leaving person information accessible to anybody.

Twitter agreed to pay Zatko a $7.75 million settlement days earlier than he filed his authentic whistleblower criticism in opposition to the corporate, based on the Wall Road Journal. The settlement included a nondisclosure settlement forbidding him from talking publicly about his time at Twitter.

Musk has centered totally on issues of free speech in his first few weeks at Twitter. This contains restoring Twitter entry for an assortment of accounts, together with former President Donald Trump, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), and the Babylon Bee. He has additionally laid off greater than 3,700 employees, and an estimated 1,200 resigned after that.