The conditions for bringing a lawsuit against a foreign state. The Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing is chaired by senator Lindsey Graham of south carolina. Generally speaking, we have a foreign sovereign immunities act , basically shutting off lawsuits against other nations because whatever we do to them, they can do to us. We made exceptions to it. We have amended the act regarding terrorist activities. This is not an issue i take lightly. Ive thought ang lot about. My colleagues have worked to put together legislation, they have reconciled the legislation. Want to have a hearing about what it would mean if we amended the act to allow suits against china. And why would we take this unprecedented step . This is the third pandemic to come out of china. The coronavirus came from hunan province, but it was a mistake in a lab or spread at a wet market, i dont know, but we do know where it came from. We know china failed to inform the world about the nature of the virus that did restrict
Sen. Durbin resuming the hearing. Sen. Whitehouse for questions. Sen. Whitehouse . Thank you very much. Mr. Zatko, i wanted to follow up a little bit on the repeated suggestions you have made in your testimony that the cybersecurity vulnerabilities will expose the United States to risks and to attacks and that security failures threaten the countrys National Security. Good with that . Peiter yes, sir. Sen. Whitehouse i guess he didnt add buyers we saw the same thing with facebook when they were taking ads with payments denominated in rubles and not figuring out that might have been russians behind those ads, and you mentioned concerns about hidden chinese ad buyers. If we could talk a little bit more about the National Security risks associated with, for instance, the unregistered Saudi Foreign agent who worked at twitter or the pressure to hire Indian Government agents, walk us through a scenario of how an individual planted in twitter like that could create a National Security risk f
Sen. Durbin resuming the hearing. Sen. Whitehouse for questions. Sen. Whitehouse . Thank you very much. Mr. Zatko, i wanted to follow up a little bit on the repeated suggestions you have made in your testimony that the cybersecurity vulnerabilities will expose the United States to risks and to attacks and that security failures threaten the countrys National Security. Good with that . Peiter yes, sir. Sen. Whitehouse i guess he didnt add buyers we saw the same thing with facebook when they were taking ads with payments denominated in rubles and not figuring out that might have been russians behind those ads, and you mentioned concerns about hidden chinese ad buyers. If we could talk a little bit more about the National Security risks associated with, for instance, the unregistered Saudi Foreign agent who worked at twitter or the pressure to hire Indian Government agents, walk us through a scenario of how an individual planted in twitter like that could create a National Security risk f
Disclosure detailing alarming allegations about twitter security practices. Without objection, his disclosure will be entered into the record. The name is peter. Thank you for joining us. You are here to serve a subpoena, so that the public can hear the details of your disclosure. Youve alleged a number of security flaws and weaknesses within, flaws that may pose a direct threat to the safety and privacy of twitters hundreds of millions of users as well as Americas National security. This actually began in 20 11 when the ftc, the federal trade commission, first concluded that twitter was playing fast and loose with user data. They found that twitter had deceived customers and put their privacy at risk by failing to safeguard their personal information. The company was ordered by the ftc to protect the security, privacy, confidentiality and integrity of user data. But you have claimed those changes have never been made. And more broadly, you have alleged that compared to other companies
Sen. Durbin resuming the hearing. Sen. Whitehouse for questions. Sen. Whitehouse . Thank you very much. Mr. Zatko, i wanted to follow up a little bit on the repeated suggestions you have made in your testimony that the cybersecurity vulnerabilities will expose the United States to risks and to attacks and that security failures threaten the countrys National Security. Good with that . Peiter yes, sir. Sen. Whitehouse i guess he didnt add buyers we saw the same thing with facebook when they were taking ads with payments denominated in rubles and not figuring out that might have been russians behind those ads, and you mentioned concerns about hidden chinese ad buyers. If we could talk a little bit more about the National Security risks associated with, for instance, the unregistered Saudi Foreign agent who worked at twitter or the pressure to hire Indian Government agents, walk us through a scenario of how an individual planted in twitter like that could create a National Security risk f