ultraviolet-divergence:

vague-humanoid:

Twitter's ex-employee was asked to "track everywhere users go" by large telecom provider

After Elon Musk took charge of Twitter, one former employee of this micro-blogging platform decided to tell the world what “unethical thing”

Cybernews

According to Krenzel, he and his team were asked – not by higher-ups at Twitter, but by representatives of a large telecommunications company – to track “when users leave their house, their commute to work, and everywhere they go throughout the day.”

ALT

The former Twitter employee said he rejected the absurd request right away. “There was no universe where I was going to help sell granular identifiable user location data,” he said.

However, Krenzel claimed he was then told by Twitter’s legal team that the request was fine and did not violate the user terms of service. 

Unsurprisingly, Krenzel eventually resigned from Twitter – as did half of his team. He remembers that already back in 2015 or 2016, the platform “was no longer a place to do good work.”