This week we discuss revelations from a US Department of Justice investigation into X (formerly Twitter), which raises questions over how it can comply with existing privacy orders given large workforce departures since Elon Musk's takeover.

The situation provides insight into the reliance of all organisations on well-resourced and skilled privacy teams in order to meet privacy compliance challenges - and the growing difficulty finding skilled people to make up these teams.

Links:

Article on DOJ investigation (Mashable) https://mashable.com/article/doj-twitter-x-elon-musk-ftc-order-investigation

Article on DOJ investigation (Axios) https://www.axios.com/2023/09/13/elon-musk-privacy-consent-order-ftc

Article on DOJ investigation (Guardian) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/13/twitter-elon-musk-takeover-ftc-order-data-security-privacy-doj-case

Article about privacy and security teams in chaos at Twitter (The Verge) https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/10/23451198/twitter-ftc-elon-musk-lawyer-changes-fine-warning

Article about Facebook struggling to know how it uses user data (Vice) https://www.vice.com/en/article/akvmke/facebook-doesnt-know-what-it-does-with-your-data-or-where-it-goes

IAPP privacy workforce report https://iapp.org/media/pdf/resource_center/IAPP_EY_Annual_Privacy_Governance_Report_2022.pdf

Credits:

Editing and post-production by Martin Franklin (East Coast Studio) eastcoaststudio.com.au

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