US FTC fields ideologically charged comments for X privacy petition
By Mike Swift ( July 9, 2026, 23:17 GMT | Insight) -- As the US Federal Trade Commission prepares to decide a rare request by X Corp. to terminate the social media company's 20-year privacy consent order, the FTC has received comments that span a wide ideological chasm. As is typical with any issue involving Elon Musk, there was a stark ideological divide about what would appear on the surface to be purely a legal question. Another group of comments weren't focused so much on whether the FTC should terminate the oversight order, but on whether the default 20-year term the FTC has for administrative orders should be shortened in a digital economy.As the US Federal Trade Commission prepares to decide a highly unusual petition by Elon Musk's X Corp. to scuttle its 20-year privacy oversight order, the FTC received comments ranging from a former US attorney general to California's newest consumer protection agency, arguing starkly different positions for what the FTC should do....
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