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FTC Seeks Comment on X Corp. Petition to Set Aside or Modify FTC Order Concerning Twitter (www.ftc.gov)
submitted 5 hours ago by TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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oh boy.

In its petition to the Commission, X Corp. cited several reasons why it believes that the order should either be set aside or modified so that it terminates at the end of 2026. The petition argues:

The order was imposed on a company that no longer exists, that every individual responsible for the underlying failures has left the company and that X Corp. has since built a world-class privacy and data-protection program;

The order no longer serves any valid regulatory purpose, imposing millions of dollars in needless costs to address obligations and protections already required by domestic and international privacy regimes and industry-recognized frameworks that X Corp. follows;

Setting aside the order safeguards First Amendment values; and

Setting aside or modifying the order is critical to advancing American leadership in artificial intelligence.

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[–] Monument@piefed.world 1 points 34 minutes ago

I thought this sounded familiar.

Twitter collected user phone numbers and email addresses for the stated reason of account verification/security. It then used that data for advertising.

It’s currently banned from profiting from deceptively collected data, is required to allow users to utilize MFA not tied to their phone number, must assess the privacy and security risks of new products, must disclose data breaches to the FCC, and limit employee access to user private information.

Not that a Republican FCC would enforce the rules, but this would make it official that Twitter can do all those things. Expect Musk to be sliming into the DM’s of everyone.