Some of the company's top privacy and security executives resigned this week due to concerns that Musk's changes may violate the FTC settlement.
The Washington Post reported that the privacy staffers were most concerned by the rapid roll out of new features without full security reviews.
The chief information security officer is leaving. The Chief Privacy Officer and Chief Compliance Officer resigned.
The FTC is keeping an eye on what's happening at the social networking site. The FTC is keeping a close eye on recent developments at the social networking site. Companies must follow the consent decree if they want to be above the law. The revised consent order gives us new tools to make sure we are following the rules.
A new settlement was reached with the FTC in May 2022, agreeing to pay a $150 million penalty for targeting ads at users with phone numbers and email addresses. According to the FTC, the ad-targeting violated the terms of the FTC's settlement with the company.
New compliance measures are required by the FTC to help prevent further misleading tactics that threaten users' privacy. Risks to privacy, security, and confidentiality must be assessed before new or modified products and services are launched.
A compliance notice must be submitted after a merger. If the company hasn't already given the FTC a compliance notice, it will today.
AdvertisementA company lawyer warned that Musk's quick changes could violate the FTC's deal with the company. The message was posted by an attorney on the company's privacy team, according to a report.
"Musk's new legal department is now asking engineers to'self-certify' compliance with FTC rules and other privacy laws, according to the lawyer's note and another employee familiar with the matter."
About half of the staff at Twitter was laid off by Musk.
The FTC requires submissions under penalty of perjury. It's important to know that self-certifying something that violates the FTC's consent decree could result in a prison sentence and huge fines. This isn't how any of this should work.
In part, the internal message reads.
This will put huge amount of personal, professional and legal risk onto engineers: I anticipate that all of you will [b]e pressured by management into pushing out changes that will likely lead to major incidents.
All of this is extremely dangerous for our users. Also, given that the FTC can (and will!) fine Twitter BILLIONS of dollars pursuant to the FTC Consent Order, extremely detrimental to Twitter's longevity as a platform. Our users deserve so much better than this.
The company's normal privacy and security review was disrespected by this week's launch of the new subscription, according to an anonymous employee. An employee of the red team said that none of their recommendations were implemented before the relaunch of the service.
It's now possible to pay $8 a month for the blue checkmarks that were previously reserved for accounts that were verified as being real.
The Washington Post quotes a former FTC official as saying that the executive departures and general chaos at Twitter raises questions about whether compliance requirements will fall through the cracks. The $150 million fine from earlier this year was larger than the one the FTC bureau of consumer protection had to pay.
There would be a significant multiple of the last fine.
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