Elon Musk’s attempt to terminate the privacy settlement Twitter/X reached with the Federal Trade Commission before acquiring the company could cause him more trouble, as government lawyers released a legal filing on Tuesday , the same day a massive new biography about Musk was released. Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson is released and making headlines.
The filing not only urges the court to deny the request, but also claims Musk should be forced to testify about his leadership of the company, according to several former Twitter senior “critical data privacy executives” including Damien Kieran. and security executives” testimonies from Chief Privacy Officer Lea Kissner and Chief Information Officer and Director of Security Engineering Andrew Sayler.
The filing said the massive layoffs at the social media company could leave it unable to meet obligations agreed to in a settlement reached last year surrounding allegations that the company misled consumers about information privacy and information security.
“The information obtained reveals a chaotic environment at the company, which raises serious questions about whether and how Musk and other leaders ensured that X Corp. complied with the 2022 executive order.” The court documents are as follows:. “Musk has unique first-hand knowledge of the current state and direction of the company’s data practices and efforts to comply with (the order).”
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Musk asked the court to terminate the agreement in July, saying the Federal Trade Commission’s ongoing investigation into whether the agreement was being fulfilled, which began before he acquired Twitter, “got out of control and was biased.” The same motion seeks a protective order to prevent Musk from testifying.
U.S. officials said the FTC spoke with five former executives and employees whose responsibilities centered around security and privacy. The discussions were held with former employees “because nearly all employees identified as privacy or data security key persons either resigned or were fired before the FTC could speak with them,” the filing said.
“Kisner testified that certain procedural protections related to product release reviews, data access controls and other ongoing security controls had been effectively dismantled,” the filing reads. “Due to the mass employee exodus, Company X’s information security program Roughly half of the controls in
Other examples of potential breaches cited in the filing include the launch of Twitter Blue, which Kisner said was implemented so quickly on Musk’s orders that it did not undergo the usual security and privacy reviews. Thaler added to these concerns, describing how “some of the security team’s recommendations were ignored, including measures to mitigate the risk of people buying verification to impersonate other accounts.”
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