Allegations in 2015 lawsuit match perfectly with latest Twitter confessions
Kit Daniels
Prison Planet.com
Jan. 15, 2018
A 2015 lawsuit claimed Twitter was spying on users, and now Twitter engineers openly admit they routinely observe the “private” sexual content of unsuspecting users.
The lawsuit was later dismissed in Twitter’s favor, but its allegations match up perfectly with new confessions from Twitter engineers, which suggests the social media site may soon be rocked with similar lawsuits comparing Twitter to Norman Bates spying on his hotel guests.
“As soon as a user sends a Direct Message, Twitter intercepts, reads, and, at times, even alters the message,” said the 2015 federal lawsuit, which was filed by Wilford Raney. “Twitter users necessarily rely on these representations to form the understanding that direct messages let them communicate privately, as opposed to publicly through public tweets.”
“Without this understanding, Twitter users would have no reasons to use Direct Messages rather than public tweets.”
“Nonetheless, unbeknownst to them, Twitter intercepts and reads the contents of every Direct Message,” the lawsuit added.
Flash forward to today: Undercover journalists with Project Veritas caught Twitter engineers on tape admitting they snoop through the direct messages of users, which allows them to build “virtual portfolios” on users Twitter can then sell to advertisers.
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“Everything you send is stored on my server… So all your sex messages and you, like, d*ck pics are on my server now,” said Direct Messaging Engineer Pranay Singh. “All your illegitimate wives and, like, all the girls you’ve been f*cking around with, they’re are on my server now… I’m going to send it to your wife, she’s going use it in your divorce.”
“So, what happens is like, you like, write something or post pictures on-line,…