Cybersecurity Policy Report, X Asks FTC to Set Aside 2022 Data Privacy Settlement, (Jun 4, 2026)

By Lynn Stanton

The Federal Trade Commission is seeking comment on a petition from X Corp. to set aside or modify its 2022 $150 million data privacy settlement order with the company, then known as Twitter.

Specifically, X argued that the order “was imposed on a company that no longer exists, that every individual responsible for the underlying failures has left the company and that X Corp. has since built a world-class privacy and data-protection program,” the FTC explained.

X also argued that the order “no longer serves any valid regulatory purpose, imposing millions of dollars in needless costs to address obligations and protections already required by domestic and international privacy regimes and industry-recognized frameworks that X Corp. follows”; that setting aside the order “safeguards First Amendment values”; and that setting aside or modifying the order “is critical to advancing American leadership in artificial intelligence.” Comments are due July 2.

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