The US court determined that the employees before Twitter were Saudi Arabia as a spy: leak user information

According to Bloomberg, a former employee of the American social media giant Twitter was judged by the court to engage in espionage because he provided some users' personal information to Saudi Arabia. The royal family.

On Tuesday, after two weeks of trial in the Federal Court of San Francisco, American residents born in Egypt Ahmad Abouammo were guilty of guilty. Perform telecommunications fraud and forgery records. After the sentence, he will face 10 to 20 years of imprisonment.

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It is reported that Abu Amo has served as a media cooperative manager of Twitter in 2015. He insisted that he was just doing his job and promoting this social platform in the Middle East and North Africa. The prosecutor claimed that he was in touch with a senior assistant of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. The evidence displayed to the jury shows that Abu Amo received a remittance with a total of $ 300,000 from the assistant of Salman, and provided the other party's private information about the Twitter account of some users.

Angela Chuang, a defense lawyer of Abu Amimo, told the jury that the case was a poor investigation and the product of Twitter's careless processing of its user data. The real goal of the US law enforcement authorities allows it to investigate, that is, the so -called "co -conspiracy" of Abu Amo, Ali Alzabarah, who had served as an engineer in Twitter, fled to Saudi Arabia, although he was being investigated at the time State monitoring.

The lawyer pointed out that "(the United States) government and Twitter need a method of recovering face." The US government allowed its main suspects to escape, and Twitter "sacrificed" Abu Amo. Can you think of the best way? "Abu Amo and his lawyer refused to comment on the verdict. (Edit: HHJ)

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