The Twitter whistleblower testifies before the US Senate on Tuesday. Here’s what to expect.

Ex Twitter security chief Peiter Zatko. Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko will speak publicly for the first time since his complaint was made public. Lawmakers are expected to grill Zatko on claims that Twitter's flaws posed a risk to user privacy and national security. Interest in the testimony has […]

Senators press Twitter CEO to address whistleblower claims

The leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee are pushing Twitter’s CEO Parag Agrawal to address allegations made by the company’s former head of security in a lengthy whistleblower complaint. In a new letter to Agrawal reported by CNN, the leaders of the committee pressed the CEO to address claims that Twitter’s security practices could harm […]

FBI raids home of whistleblower who had ‘dirt’ on Clinton Foundation, Mueller

More than a dozen FBI agents searched for six hours the house of a contractor who had given Congress and the DOJ documents about the Clinton Foundation and the Uranium One scandal, implicating then-FBI director Robert Mueller. Sixteen agents showed up at the Maryland home of Dennis Nathan Cain on November 19, the Daily Caller […]

Tesla whistleblower tweets photos of allegedly damaged batteries

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Filed under: Etc.,Green,Tesla,Technology,Electric,Luxury ‘Are any of these VINs YOUR car? …’ Continue reading Tesla whistleblower tweets photos of allegedly damaged batteries Tesla whistleblower tweets photos of allegedly damaged batteries originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 15 Aug 2018 19:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink |  Email […]

Self-styled Tesla whistleblower files formal SEC complaint

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Tesla ‘whistleblower’ files tip with the SEC (TSLA)

Hollis Johnson/Business Insider Former Tesla employee Martin Tripp has filed a whistleblower tip with the Securities and Exchange Commission in which he alleges the company lied about Model 3 production numbers and put unsafe batteries in its cars, The Washington Post reports. Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but the company […]

Tesla fires back against alleged whistleblower: “He is nothing of the sort”

Enlarge Tesla is now wholly refuting the claims made by an ex-employee and self-proclaimed whistleblower who previously leaked information to the press. In a lengthy statement provided Friday to Ars via a Tesla spokesperson, the company flatly denied that Martin Tripp, the man that the company sued earlier this week for alleged trade secrets violations, […]

GMB: ’Did it make ANY difference?’ Vote Leave whistleblower savaged in brutal interview

Shahmir Sanni was a volunteer for Vote Leave and explained how he was a Brexiteer through and through.  However he has compiled The Cambridge Analytica Files, which detail how he believes the anti-EU campaign was actually breaking the rules.  He claims Vote Leave “coordinated” their budgets with BeLeave and thus gained an extra £625,000 on […]

Brexit campaign group ‘cheated’ spending rules, whistleblower claims

Channel 4 Vote Leave — one of the main pro-Brexit campaign groups — has been accused of bending spending rules during the referendum campaign. Whistleblower Shahmir Sanni told Channel 4 that Vote Leave used a smaller organisation called BeLeave to bypass spending limits. “I know that people have been lied to and that the referendum wasn’t […]

Whistleblower explains how Cambridge Analytica ‘exploited’ Facebook

Last night Facebook announced bans against Cambridge Analytica, its parent company and several individuals for allegedly sharing and keeping data that they had promised to delete. This data reportedly included information siphoned from hundreds of thousands of Amazon Mechanical Turkers who were paid to use a “personality prediction app” that collected data from them and […]