Twitter tells parliamentary panel it follows strict data privacy

New Delhi: Twitter has told a parliamentary panel that follows it follows strict data safety standards and most of the employees do not have access to user data.

Twitter officials were asked questions by the panel led by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Friday.

Sources have said that the members asked about former employee Peiter Zatko’s allegation and it clarified that the government did not force them to recruit their people in the company.

The micro-blogging site also denied any data leak by the company.

The panelhad summoned Twitter and IRCTC over data privacy.