Hi,
Elon Musk has been trumpeting “free speech” since he took the reins at
Twitter — yet his biggest partner in the company is the violently
repressive Saudi royal family, who killed dissident and Washington Post
journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.^1 Privacy and security on Twitter are
more important than ever.
Right now, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is asking for public
comments on the privacy laws that corporations are currently abusing to
share our personal data. But there are only 6 days left to make our voices
heard. We need to tell the FTC to force corporations to encrypt our DMs to
protect us from hackers, corporate abuse, and government repression!
[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition: The FTC must require corporations to encrypt our DMs
and all of our data that they handle!
ADD YOUR NAME
Twitter’s failure to encrypt our personal data has already led to major
national security breaches — like when a former Twitter employee spied on
Saudi dissidents’ Twitter accounts and passed their personal information
along to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.^2 A spy was able to sell
out critics of the Saudi monarchy precisely because of Twitter’s poor
privacy protections for users.
Now that the Saudi government has secured a major share in Twitter, the
risk of surveillance and espionage is even greater—and it doesn’t help
that Elon Musk’s inability to competently manage Twitter is eviscerating
the company.^3
That’s why the FTC must take advantage of this opportunity to adopt
comprehensive privacy rules that will govern online data collection,
usage, and sharing. Our freedom of speech is in danger because Twitter and
other corporations fail to encrypt our DMs and protect users’ privacy.
It’s time for the FTC to make this failure to encrypt illegal.
[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition: The FTC must require corporations to encrypt our DMs
and protect users’ privacy!
Thanks for taking action,
Izzi and the team at Demand Progress
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Sources:
1. Mother Jones, “Elon Musk, Free Speech Absolutist, Is Silent About His
Saudi Partners,” [ [link removed] ]October 30, 2022.
2. The Guardian, “Ex-Twitter employee found guilty of spying on Saudi
dissidents,” [ [link removed] ]August 9, 2022.
3. WIRED, “Twitter’s SMS Two-Factor Authentication Is Melting Down,”
[ [link removed] ]November 14, 2022.
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