A former security engineer at Meta’s WhatsApp sued Meta, accusing it of failing to protect its users’ data, violating privacy regulations on multiple continents and firing him in retaliation for filing whistleblower complaints with U.S. authorities. The suit in San Francisco’s U.S. District Court by Attaullah Baig said the retaliation began in 2022, after a series of positive performance reviews, when he submitted internal critiques and proposals for limiting employee access to user data and better protecting accounts from being hijacked.
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