Ireland’s privacy watchdog says it is engaging with Twitter about giving data access to outsiders, amid concerns that Twitter could be in violation of GDPR (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Ireland’s privacy watchdog says it is engaging with Twitter about giving data access to outsiders, amid concerns that Twitter could be in violation of GDPR  —  Elon Musk’s desire to stir conspiratorial shit up by giving select outsiders aligned with his conservative agenda access to Twitter systems …

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Ireland’s privacy watchdog says it is engaging with Twitter about giving data access to outsiders, amid concerns that Twitter could be in violation of GDPR  —  Elon Musk’s desire to stir conspiratorial shit up by giving select outsiders aligned with his conservative agenda access to Twitter systems …

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Source: Twitter is no longer fulfilling key prerequisites for it to claim Ireland as its “main establishment” under the EU’s GDPR, following execs’ departures  —  Next stop: Regulatory hell?  —  Helmed by erratic new owner Elon Musk, Twitter is no longer fulfilling key obligations required …

The Verge:
In a letter to Twitter, Musk’s legal team cited Twitter’s ~$7M settlement with Peiter Zatko as a violation of the merger agreement and a reason to end the deal  —  He sent a letter to Twitter on Friday  —  Elon Musk has sent a third letter to Twitter attempting to terminate his $44 billion acquisition of the company.

Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg:
Thiel-backed conservative video platform Rumble is up 37% after going public via SPAC merger at a $2.1B valuation, raising $400M  —  Rumble Inc., the conservative video network backed by billionaire Peter Thiel, became a publicly traded company Monday through a deal with a blank-check firm …

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Unsealed court docs in a privacy user profiling suit against Meta show that apps from Zynga, Yahoo, and others had extensive access to users’ friends’ data  —  It’s not the crime, it’s the cover up… The scandal-hit company formerly known as Facebook has fought for over four years to keep …