Elon Musk tries again to escape FTC audits of X data handling

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Elon Musk is mounting another legal challenge to escape a 20-year FTC order that requires regular independent audits of X's data handling practices. The original restrictions, imposed shortly before Musk's 2022 takeover of Twitter, stemmed from the company's disclosure of a coding error that exposed user phone numbers and email addresses between 2013 and 2019. Critics are fighting to preserve the auditing requirement, viewing it as essential oversight of how the platform manages sensitive user data.