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Musk’s Lawyer Calms Twitter Staff Fearing Jail Risk for FTC Lapses
- mzs 4y agoThis is from three days ago, but I missed it at first. The journalist's thread highlights some more: https://twitter.com/rj_gallagher/status/1591149488688680960 https://twitter.com/rj_gallagher/status/1591149488688680960 … >Also: We're told Musk laid off an entire information security team at Twitter that oversaw sharing of user data with advertisers & research partners, a move that triggered internal concerns about vulnerability to security threats & potential violations of FTC rules. >The move to scrap the six-person information security team was combined with layoffs of at least a dozen other employees working on security, privacy & compliance issues at the company, according to people familiar with the matter. …
- rogerkirkness 4y agoIt seems like if they stopped sharing data with advertisers and research partners, this would be fine? Presumably FTC is some BigCo PII compliance thing?
- cldellow 4y agoTwitter is under a consent decree from the FTC due to misusing users data in the past. This means they must do certain compliance activities that other companies don't. It sucks. Source: I worked at Microsoft while they were under a consent decree from the DOJ. Luckily, I just had to do the mind-numbing scutwork, and other folks were responsible for certifying that we were in compliance.