{"id":343984,"date":"2018-01-16T01:07:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T00:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/twitter-sued-for-scanning-private-messages\/"},"modified":"2018-01-16T01:07:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T00:07:24","slug":"twitter-sued-for-scanning-private-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/twitter-sued-for-scanning-private-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Sued For Scanning Private Messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>Allegations in 2015 lawsuit match perfectly with latest Twitter confessions<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kit Daniels<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>Jan. 15, 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">A 2015 lawsuit claimed Twitter was spying on users, and now Twitter engineers openly admit they routinely observe the \u201cprivate\u201d sexual content of unsuspecting users.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The lawsuit was later dismissed in Twitter\u2019s 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAs soon as a user sends a Direct Message, Twitter intercepts, reads, and, at times, even alters the message,\u201d said the 2015 federal lawsuit, which was filed by Wilford Raney.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cTwitter users necessarily rely on these representations to form the understanding that direct messages let them communicate privately, as opposed to publicly through public tweets.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWithout this understanding, Twitter users would have no reasons to use Direct Messages rather than public tweets.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cNonetheless, unbeknownst to them, Twitter intercepts and reads the contents of every Direct Message,\u201d the lawsuit added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Flash forward to today: Undercover journalists with Project Veritas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.projectveritas.com\/2018\/01\/15\/hidden-camera-hundreds-of-twitter-employees-paid-to-view-everything-you-post-online-including-private-sex-messages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">caught Twitter engineers on tape<\/a> admitting they snoop through the direct messages of users, which allows them to build \u201cvirtual portfolios\u201d on users Twitter can then sell to advertisers.<\/span><!-- [donotprint] --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ppani\">\n<li>A d v e r t i s e m e n t<\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><!-- [\/donotprint] --><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rgyPpsX2B0g\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cEverything you send is stored on my server\u2026 So all your sex messages and you, like, d*ck pics are on my server now,\u201d said Direct Messaging Engineer Pranay Singh. \u201cAll your illegitimate wives and, like, all the girls you\u2019ve been f*cking around with, they\u2019re are on my server now\u2026 I\u2019m going to send it to your wife, she\u2019s going use it in your divorce.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cSo, what happens is like, you like, write something or post pictures on-line,&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/flashback-twitter-sued-for-scanning-private-messages.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allegations in 2015 lawsuit match perfectly with latest Twitter confessions Kit DanielsPrison Planet.comJan. 15, 2018 A 2015 lawsuit claimed Twitter was spying on users, and now Twitter engineers openly admit they routinely observe the \u201cprivate\u201d sexual content of unsuspecting users. The lawsuit was later dismissed in Twitter\u2019s favor, but its allegations match up perfectly with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-343984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}