Twitter’s former head of security has filed a lawsuit against Mr.
Lawyers representing Alan Rosa, Twitter’s former global head of security, information technology and privacy, filed a lawsuit late Tuesday in U.S. District Court in New Jersey with Mr. filed a complaint against. At the time of his hire, Rosa, who was based in New Jersey, was responsible for Twitter’s global security and his IT teams, which are comprised of his 500 employees spread across the United States.
Rosa’s suit, like other recent lawsuits brought by former Twitter employees, is based on the massive cost-cutting efforts Musk undertook after he acquired the company for $44 billion (later renamed it X). It emanates from the beginning.
Rosa said security chiefs believed Davis would take Musk’s orders and compromise the company’s ability to comply with various obligations and regulations, including the Federal Trade Commission’s Consent Decree and the Digital Services Act (DSA). The company claimed to have undertaken a number of cost-cutting measures. ) established by the European Commission. European law requires certain big tech platforms to document and monitor illegal online content, with penalties of up to 6% of annual revenue for non-compliance.
Rosa said Davis wanted to stop paying for an “ethical hacking program called ‘HackerOne'” and other “vulnerability management software” that the company needed to comply with Twitter’s FTC Consent Decree. the lawyers wrote.
“Mr. Davis, like Mr. Musk, ignored Twitter’s FTC Consent Order and began reducing Twitter’s products and services that support and comply with Twitter’s FTC Consent Order,” the lawyers wrote.
Davis also instructed Rosa to stop using it. sales forceRosa said this was a problem because the software contained data that the company needed to share with law enforcement.
“Plaintiffs objected to the directive to shut down Salesforce because doing so would violate the DSA and impair the company’s ability to ‘adequately respond to law enforcement investigations,'” the lawsuit said.
Additionally, Rosa said Davis ordered Twitter’s head of security to “reduce the physical security budget by an additional 50% by midnight,” but that action “was taken in hours, not days.” he claimed. Rosa argued that the cuts “pose a serious risk to public safety.”
“The physical building, which he had to immediately unsecure, contained over 800 laptops and other electronic devices that were placed on court-ordered legal hold. The court order required the company to ensure that physical data on laptops and other electronic devices was preserved.The building was preserved and was not removed, destroyed or altered in any way, the lawyers said. is written in the submitted documents.
Rosa claimed he was fired days after he raised his objections, saying, “I had done nothing wrong to warrant termination, so I was terminated in an inexplicable manner.”
Rosa also said that Mr.
Mr. Rosa entered into an arbitration agreement with Company X, but his lawyers were ordered to do so because the company “refuses to pay a portion of the arbitration costs,” leaving Mr. Rosa no choice but to sue. said.
The lawyers allege that X violated several employee laws, including the New Jersey Conscientious Employee Protection Act, New York and California labor regulations, and the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act. ing.
Ms. Rosa seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages relief.
A spokesperson for Company X did not respond to a request for comment.
In October, former Twitter software engineer Yao Yue filed a lawsuit against the company, claiming that the company fired her in violation of the National Labor Relations Act. Yue claimed to have helped organize her colleagues who were concerned about Musk’s immediate changes to various work policies.
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