Former Twitter Employee Convicted of Spying for Saudi Arabia, Accessing Private User Data | Technology News

Former Twitter Employee Convicted of Spying for Saudi Arabia, Accessing Private User Data Former Twitter employee Ahmad Abouammo has been convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia, after he failed to register as an agent and accessed private data on users critical of the kingdom’s government. The FBI’s complaint had alleged that Abouammo and Saudi citizens Ali Alzabarah and Ahmed Al-Mutairi used their positions to access confidential Twitter data about user...