San Francisco, Aug 26 (IANS) A US choose has rejected Elon Musk’s absurd demand to ask Twitter handy over all knowledge for roughly 200 million consumer accounts for the final three years.
Decide Kathaleen McCormick mentioned no to Musk’s authorized staff’s “absurdly broad” request, saying that Twitter should hand over the 9,000 accounts it reviewed for its audit within the fourth quarter of 2021, studies The Verge.
“Plaintiff (Twitter) has problem quantifying the burden of responding to that request as a result of nobody of their proper thoughts has ever tried to undertake such an effort. It suffices to say, Plaintiff has demonstrated that such a request is overly burdensome,” the choose dominated late on Thursday.
Twitter will now want handy over “a small extra set of knowledge from its overview database”, mentioned the choose.
As well as, the choose additionally agreed to Twitter’s request for paperwork from Musk’s facet, like the information evaluation Musk carried out earlier than he introduced to terminate the $44 billion takeover deal.
Musk and Twitter will get engaged to a correct courtroom battle from October 17 for 5 days.
Musk’s staff has additionally submitted a subpoena for proof from former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.
In the meantime, Twitter’s former head of safety, Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, has claimed that the Parag Agrawal-led platform lied concerning the precise variety of bots on its platform and misled federal regulators about customers’ security, making a storm.
(Apart from the headline, the remainder of this IANS article is un-edited)
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