Lawyers for family say Saudi government took brother\u2019s data in breach and \u2018arrested, tortured, and imprisoned\u2019 him and others<\/p>\n
The company formerly known as Twitter is \u201cunfit\u201d to hold banking licenses because of its alleged \u201cintentional complicity\u201d with human rights violations in Saudi Arabia and treatment of users\u2019 personal data, according to an open letter sent to federal and state banking regulators that was signed by a law firm representing a Saudi victim\u2019s family.<\/p>\n
The allegations by lawyers representing Areej al-Sadhan<\/a>, whose brother Abdulrahman was one of thousands of Saudis<\/a> whose confidential personal information was obtained by Saudi agents posing as Twitter employees in 2014-15, comes as Twitter Payments LLC, a subsidiary of X (the company formerly known as Twitter), is in the process of applying for money-transmitter licenses across the US.<\/p>\n