WASHINGTON, July 24 -- Sen. Ron Wyden issued the following press release:
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Ron Wyden said today he has joined Senate colleagues to urge the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to reject X's petition to end the company's privacy responsibilities under a unanimously approved 2022 order.
In its petition, X makes the extraordinary and baseless claim that rebranding Twitter as X frees the company from the privacy obligations it inherited. Beyond this claim, X's other arguments that the order's compliance is too costly, the company should be trusted to self-regulate, and ending the obligations under this order would serve the public interest in the American AI race are similarly frivolous. The senators therefore call f...