FTC faces pressure from Twitter, Republicans over privacy investigation – CyberScoop

Skip to main content A hearing to review FTC Chair Lina Khan’s leadership turned into a debate over the commission’s role overseeing Twitter’s privacy practices. Lina Khan, nominee for Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), speaks at a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on April 21, 2021. (Photo by Saul Loeb-Pool/Getty Images) Republicans sparred with Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan over the agency’s investigation into Twitter’s data and privacy protection practices in an oversight hearing on Thursday. The hearing meant to examine GOP allegations of FTC “mismanagement” under Khan came just after Twitter on Thursday asked a federal court to terminate the consent order giving the commission oversight of its privacy practices. In the filing, lawyers for Twitter alleged the agency was “imposing new and burdensome demands and treating the Consent Order as a license for invasive scrutiny of any move X Corp. makes, no matter how remote from the data privacy and security concerns.” Elon Musk changed the legal name of Twitter to X. Corp. In his opening remarks, House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, cited work by his Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government alleging targeted harassment
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