Cybersecurity

DOJ Charges Two Former Twitter Employees with Spying for the Saudis

Wednesday, November 6, 2019, 5:34 PM

The Department of Justice has charged two former Twitter employees, one a U.S. citizen and one a Saudi citizen, after the two men allegedly accessed Twitter user's personal information on behalf of Saudi Arabia. The complaint can be found here and below.

Criminal Complaint Against Twitter Employees (PDF)Criminal Complaint Against Twitter Employees (Text)

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Jacob Schulz is an associate editor at Lawfare and a research assistant at the Brookings Institution. Previously, he was a research assistant for two Amherst College professors where he worked on a book about French Resistance to Nazi occupation as well as two forthcoming books, one about the al-Nashiri Military Commissions case and one about the history of international criminal law. He earned a bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from Amherst College in Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought and French. He wrote his senior thesis about drone warfare and legal theory.

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