A video released by investigative journalist group Project Veritas shows Twitter employees expose top-secret details about their jobs.
Senior Network Security Engineer Clay Haynes is heard in the footage captured January 6 speaking openly about how he is paid to access and analyze users’ personal information – which includes browsing through hundreds of obscene pictures and messages.
‘There’s teams dedicated to it. I mean, we’re talking, we’re talking three or four… at least, three or four hundred people… Yes, they’re paid to look at d**k pics,’ Haynes revealed in the shocking video.
Project Veritas has released undercover footage of Twitter Engineers and employees admitting that Twitter employees view all of your private messages on their servers and analyze it to create a virtual profile for users
Haynes said he specifically analyzes tweets and messages that have been flagged or reported.
‘I get to look at all of the reported tweets. Which means I have seen alot of d*ck pics. It’s ridiculous.
‘I mean… it’s like a level… I don’t want to say it freaks me out, but it disturbs me,’ he added.
Senior Network Security Engineer Clay Haynes is heard in the footage captured January 6 speaking openly about how he is paid to access and analyze reported pictures and messages
While speaking to reporters, Direct Messaging Engineer Pranay Singh tells them everything they ever sent on Twitter is stored on his server – and they never go away
‘They never go away, they are always on there. Even after you send them, people are analyzing them to see what you’re interested in, to see what you’re talking about, and they sell that data,’ said Singh
Haynes also said in response to the reporter’s question that he even has to power to leak sensitive information if need be.
‘It’s a genie out of the bottle kind of thing after that point. Sure, I can fire them, heck, I could probably even sue them in some cases,’ Haynes said.
While speaking to reporters, Direct Messaging Engineer Pranay Singh said everything they ever sent on Twitter is stored on his server – and will never go away.
‘All of your illegitimate wives and all the girls you’ve been f**king around with, they are on my sever now,’ said Singh.
Conversations thought to be private between users on Twitter are permanently stored on a server
‘They never go away, they are always on there. Even after you send them, people are analyzing them to see what you’re interested in, to see what you’re talking about, and they sell that data to advertisers.’
And, since Twitter is free, another software engineer, Mihai Florea, said users are basically ‘paying for the right’ to use the website with their own data.
Former software engineer Conrado Miranda added: ‘You leak way more information than you think.
”We have information from people… like, if you go to Twitter for the first time, we have information about you.’
Twitter’s Privacy Policy shown above notes how sensitive information is stored