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• @dnvolz @dnvolz on x

  NEW: The former #2 at the FBI, Sean Joyce, resigned from Airbnb last year due to concerns about the company's data sharing in China, including an unwritten request made for realtime data. “We're not here to promote American values,” a cofounder told Joyce. https://www.wsj.com/...

• @eliotwb Eliot Brown on x

  Important story here -Airbnb hires former deputy director of FBI in may 2019 -6 mos later he quits over concerns about how much data Airbnb was sharing with Chinese authorities https://www.wsj.com/...

• @zackwhittaker Zack Whittaker on x

  Former FBI deputy director Sean Joyce joined Airbnb as its chief trust officer. He resigned six months later over concerns about how the massive rental platform shares data on millions of its users with Chinese authorities. https://www.wsj.com/...

• @tunkuv Tunku Varadarajan on x

  Not everyone kowtows to Peking. https://www.wsj.com/...

• @ajitpaifcc Ajit Pai on x

  “[T]he discussion came at a moment when executives feared they might not be allowed to continue operating the company's large business in China. 'We're not here to promote American values.'” https://www.wsj.com/...

• @kate_okeeffe Kate O'Keeffe on x

  Ex-FBI @Airbnb exec opposed Chinese govt request company provide customer data when users book online reservations vs when they arrive at properties bc he thought arrangement could help Chinese intelligence better anticipate guests' movements. Great work by @dnvolz @KirstenGrind …

• @dawende Edwin Lacierda on x

  In case you intend to visit China & stay in an Airbnb, it shares your data w/ the govt. As its co-founder said: “We're not here to promote American values.” WSJ reports that Airbnb says it is transparent w/ users about what is shared w/ Chinese officials. https://www.wsj.com/...

• @repswalwell Rep. Eric Swalwell on x

  This is what conviction and patriotism look like. There are zero reasons why a U.S. company should share your data with China. https://twitter.com/...

• @baldingsworld @baldingsworld on x

  This is a stunning beach of privacy by an American company that has just put it's users in the cross hairs is Chinese data harvesting and hacking efforts. This is truly astounding and appalling https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @lizthegrey Liz Fong-Jones on x

  You cannot do business in the PRC without becoming complicit in the PRC's security apparatus and repression of ethnic minorities. It's why I and countless Google employees protested Dragonfly, which would have given PRC security apparatus access to user searches by phone number. …

• @alexstamos Alex Stamos on x

  1) I know Sean and think he is honorable and capable. His leaving carries a lot of weight with me in this case. 2) As I said around the TikTok issue, we need a comprehensive data protection framework that controls data flows to the PRC, not just a focus on PRC-owned companies. ht…

• @byrontau Byron Tau on x

  A senior FBI official, Sean Joyce, joined AirBnB after retiring from gov't last year, only to resign a few months later over concerns about how the company shared data with China. “We're not here to promote American values,” AirBnB co-founder told him. https://www.wsj.com/...

• @repkenbuck Congressman Ken Buck on x

  Two huge red flags. 1. Airbnb's “Chief Trust Officer” resigned over concerns about how the company shares data on millions of its users with the CCP. 2. Airbnb's co-founder: “We're not here to promote American values.” https://www.wsj.com/...

• @mmasnick Mike Masnick on x

  Uhhhhhhhhhh... 🚨🚨🚨 https://twitter.com/...