Ahmad Abouammo, 45, has been convicted of passing along sensitive information, including phone numbers and birth dates of dissidents, to Saudi Arabia. Court records show that Abouammo, a dual US-Lebanese citizen, was part of a scheme to acquire personal information of users, including phone numbers and birth dates, for a Saudi government agent. Prosecutors said that Abouammo’s scheme began in …
Former Twitter employee Ahmad Abouammo has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison after being convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia, media reported on Thursday. Abouammo was found guilty by a US court in August this year for accessing private information in the accounts of certain Twitter users, and providing that information to officials in Saudi Arabia. …
Zeina Abouammo, center, whose husband, Ahmad Abouammo, was accused of using his position at Twitter to spy on accounts for a Saudi official, arrives for a hearing at U.S. District Court in Seattle on Nov. 8, 2019. Federal prosecutors said the Saudi official who met with Abouammo gave him a luxury Hublot watch in London in December 2014. After the …
A former Twitter employee was found guilty of turning over personal information of anonymous users who had criticized Saudi Arabia, led by Mohammed bin Salman, above. A former Twitter employee was convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia by turning over personal information of platform users who had used anonymous handles to criticize the kingdom and its royal family. Politics CIA …
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