Welcome to the Tech Main Right Home for Wednesday, August 24th, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, a deep dive into that Twitter whistleblower because the allegations are getting pretty interesting and it turns

out he's a bigger deal than I knew. Apple is breaking its iPad OS release cadence. Fitbit has unveiled

three new wearables and why just deciding to bring the

silicon industry back on shore is not as easy as just passing billions and

subsidies. Here's what you miss today in the world of Tech.

So this Twitter Whistleblower complaint has gotten very interesting.

Among the details coming out, the complaint alleges,

the government of India forced Twitter to hire one of its agents who could have

accessed sensitive user data due to Twitter's overall weak security, quoting Reuters.

Peter Mudge Zatko raised the issue with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,

among other security lapse claims, at Twitter.

He said the government agent would have had access to sensitive user data due to

Twitter's week security infrastructure according to a redacted

version of the complaint uploaded by the Washington Post newspaper and verified by

Zatko's attorney at Whistleblower Aid.

A company source told Reuters that the allegations about the Indian government had surfaced previously

within Twitter without elaborating further.

Twitter is engaged in a legal challenge against the Indian government after it asked a local court in July to overturn some government orders to remove content from the social media platform and alleged abuse of power by officials.

The next hearing in the case is set for Thursday. The company did not

in fact disclose to users that it was believed by the executive team that the Indian

government had succeeded in placing agents on the company payroll.

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