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FTC Chair Refused Musk's Meeting Request, Told Him to Stop Delaying Investigation

posted by janrinok on Tuesday April 04, @04:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the distract-and-delay dept.

Freeman writes:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/ftc-chair-refused-musks-meeting-request-told-him-to-stop-delaying-investigation/

Twitter owner Elon Musk requested a meeting with Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan late last year, but he was rebuffed and told to stop dragging his heels on providing documents and depositions needed for the FTC investigation into Twitter's privacy and data practices, a New York Times report said yesterday.

"In a Jan. 27 letter declining the meeting, Ms. Khan told a Twitter lawyer to focus on complying with investigators' demands for information before she would consider meeting with Mr. Musk," the NYT wrote.

Twitter has to comply with conditions in a May 2022 settlement in which it agreed to pay a $150 million penalty for targeting ads at users with phone numbers and email addresses collected from those users when they enabled two-factor authentication. Last year's settlement was reached after the FTC said Twitter violated the terms of a 2011 settlement that prohibited the company from misrepresenting its privacy and security practices.

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FTC Fines Twitter $150M for Using 2FA Info for Targeted Advertising (20220527)
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  • (Score: 2) by inertnet on Wednesday April 05, @06:35PM (1 child)

    by inertnet (4071) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 05, @06:35PM (#1299949) Journal

    I don't remember where I got that information earlier, but these people [esa.int] conclude:

    “As it stands today, we can’t go to Mars due to radiation. It would be impossible to meet acceptable dose limits”

    I'm sure that some people may be able to survive for a long time over there, but I would not take the risk. Especially if I were still young and planning to have kids someday.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday April 06, @09:16AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday April 06, @09:16AM (#1300057) Journal

    I'm sure that some people may be able to survive for a long time over there, but I would not take the risk. Especially if I were still young and planning to have kids someday.

    Notice the use of the phrase "acceptable dose limits". It's nowhere near a genuine health limit by design. Accept higher doses and we can indeed go to Mars.