Elon Musk’s Twitter is facing increased scrutiny relating to the US Federal Trade Commission’s investigation of the social media giant’s handling of privacy and data security practices, according to Bloomberg.
Within the past month, lawyers with the FTC have questioned two of Twitter’s former senior executives about the company’s compliance with the government agency’s 2011 consent order that forced the company to address data-security issues, according to the report, adding that the former executives were asked about the order after Musk bought the company.
The wider investigation is the result of many of Twitter’s legal, compliance, and privacy executives leaving the company, the report states.
ELON MUSK CONSIDERING POSSIBLE NEW TWITTER CEO
Sources told Bloomberg that the FTC has questioned Twitter’s former Chief Privacy Officer and Damien Kieran, who was Twitter’s senior cybersecurity officer, who left the company on Nov, 10.
ELON MUSK SAYS ONLY TWITTER BLUE SUBSCRIBERS WILL BE ALLOWED TO VOTE IN POLICY-RELATED POLLS
In response to a request for comment, Musk told Bloomberg “Why has Bloomberg News been asleep at the switch regarding government censorship of social media?”
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX BUSINESS APP
In May, before Musk completed his purchase of the company, Twitter was forced to pay $150 million after “collecting customers’ personal information for the stated purpose of security and then exploiting it commercially,” according to the FTC.