{"id":285010,"date":"2026-07-02T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/musks-x-poses-serious-risk-to-americans-privacy-advocates-warn-ftc\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T13:40:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:40:22","slug":"musks-x-poses-serious-risk-to-americans-privacy-advocates-warn-ftc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/musks-x-poses-serious-risk-to-americans-privacy-advocates-warn-ftc\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk\u2019s X poses \u201cserious risk to Americans\u2019 privacy,\u201d advocates warn FTC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Musk\u2019s X poses \u201cserious risk to Americans\u2019 privacy,\u201d advocates warn FTC<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/07\/musks-x-poses-serious-risk-to-americans-privacy-advocates-warn-ftc\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-07-02 10:39:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: arstechnica.com<\/a><\/p>\n

And finally, the GDPR is not a substitute for FTC monitoring, they argued. That seems particularly clear since X is currently under investigation for its \u201cunauthorized collection of European users\u2019 data to train its Grok AI model without valid GDPR consent\u201d advocated noted.<\/p>\n

\u201cX Corp.\u2019s foray into artificial intelligence development should prompt greater FTC oversight of the company\u2019s privacy practices, not less,\u201d advocates said.<\/p>\n

Former AG supports X<\/h2>\n

X did not respond to Ars\u2019 request to comment.<\/p>\n

However, former US Attorney General William Barr has submitted comments supporting X. In his letter, Barr called out hundreds of FTC info demands after Musk bought Twitter as excessive.<\/p>\n

Arguing against \u201cpermanent agency control of private companies,\u201d Barr pushed the FTC to stop treating the termination of consent orders as requiring extraordinary circumstances, and at the very least reopen the order to consider if the scope of X\u2019s restrictions is proper.<\/p>\n

Whether X\u2019s petition can succeed may hinge on X\u2019s legal analysis, though, which advocates claim was \u201cmisleading.\u201d<\/p>\n

For example, neither of the cases X cited actually supports its claim that a \u201ctransformed\u201d company shouldn\u2019t be obligated to maintain an order after restructuring, advocates argued. In one case, an order was terminated by invoking a \u201csunset\u201d policy that requires such an outcome after 20 years. In the other, an order was not fundamentally changed due to a market shift, as X argued, but eventually modified after 16 years of compliance.<\/p>\n

In contrast to those cases, X\u2019s order is \u201cmerely four years old,\u201d advocates said, and X has shown it still requires scrutiny. Further, Musk agreed to accept the costs and comply with the order when he bought Twitter, so he should be stuck with it for the entire duration, they argued.<\/p>\n

More glaringly, advocates pointed out that X is largely unchanged, serving the same functions as a platform as Twitter.<\/p>\n

Musk,…<\/p>\n

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