Judge Rejects Elon Musk's Efforts To Cancel FTC's Decision

Elon Musk failed to cancel the FTC decision regarding user data protection X (photo: twitter @elonmusk)

JAKARTA The issue between the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and X, previously Twitter, has come to a new decision. This time, Elon Musk's efforts were rejected by a federal judge.

As we know, Twitter had problems with the FTC before Musk appeared. The commission awarded a fine of USD 150 million or approximately IDR 2.3 trillion and a new approval decision to protect user data in May last year.

The penalties given by the FTC certainly have a reason. The FTC claims to have found evidence that Twitter had violated their previous consent by spreading users' personal data such as phone numbers and email addresses to advertisers.

However, Musk tried to overturn the new approval decision from the FTC. According to him, the FTC is trying to increase surveillance and suppress third-party appraisers so that they find errors in security practices on X.

Musk talked about the FTC on his personal X account. He said that, "(the FTC decision is) an embarrassing case that arms government agencies for political purposes and suppresses the truth."

However, various resistances from Musk did not go well. Federal judges rejected Musk's wishes and stated that they were not authorized to stop the FTC court order.

Apart from not being the right party, the judge stated that X's argument remains unacceptable because the FTC has clear reasons for making decisions. Various evidences that make the FTC's decision to strengthen are the issue of layoffs, labor reductions, and others.

With this decision, X still has to follow the rules that have been decided by the FTC. The platform must also comply with the strict privacy reporting standards that the FTC entered into last year.