FTC accuses Amazon executives of using Signal to automatically delete messages
Signal has been the messaging app of choice for private communications for years. The federal government now believes Amazon improperly used its authority.
by washington post, the Federal Trade Commission found that top Amazon executives, including former CEO Jeff Bezos, were using Signal’s automatic message deletion feature to hide their communications even after the FTC ordered them to be retained. denounced. Amazon apparently planned to stop deleting the messages after being notified that the FTC was investigating the company for antitrust violations.
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The FTC’s argument is that even though it’s possible to see when users did and didn’t turn on the message deletion feature, these deleted messages are indeed lost forever. Centered on facts.
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“It is clear from the messages that were not deleted that Amazon executives used Signal to discuss competition-related business issues,” the court documents said. Engadget.
Signal has been widely used by activists and data security enthusiasts to hide their communications from prying eyes for years. Messages benefit from end-to-end encryption on the app. This means that only users within the chat room can see your messages. Disappearing messages are set to disappear automatically after a certain amount of time if the device on which they were stored is stolen or compromised.
From a purely selfish standpoint, Bezos and his company made a smart move. However, they may have flopped a bit when it came to working with the FTC.
