The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating Twitter’s privacy and security policies. The regulator would have launched a new investigation into Twitter’s policies after the takeover by Elon Musk.
The FTC is said to have questioned at least two former senior Twitter employees in the past month; three different sources tell Bloomberg . The regulator wants to know whether Twitter is still doing enough to properly secure Twitter. Twitter settled with the FTC in 2010 after the regulator concluded that Twitter handled users’ private information poorly.
The case was again discredited when whistleblower Peiter Zatko came forward with accusations against Twitter at the beginning of this year. The former Twitter security officer claimed that the company would not comply with the agreements made in 2010 with the FTC. Now the regulator is once again putting Twitter under a magnifying glass to check whether Twitter is doing enough to protect user data.
Twitter was previously fined $150 million by the FTC for using users’ phone numbers to show ads. Users had to provide the phone numbers to provide their account with two-step verification.
The FTC declined to comment on the investigation to Bloomberg. In November, the company confirmed that it is closely following developments at Twitter.
