Lauren WeinsteinSo let's be clear about this, we're being told that Musk ordered employees to give an outside reporter access to *everything* internally at #Twitter. Without exceptions. That would mean users' direct messages as well. Think about it.
ShaneLee@lauren Free Speech has no Privacy when that speech is exercised on anything privately owned - all Twitter content belongs to the owner
@sp2962 Subject to national laws and international treaties. In the case of the U.S., this is mainly the FTC and the existing Twitter FTC consent decree. In Europe, there are a whole array of privacy and other laws impacting Twitter.
Max Riethmuller (TechLife)@sp2962 @lauren no, they don't. For a start in your user agreement with Twitter, they agree that you retain copyright ownership of your content. They also agree to certain privacy controls.
Further to that there are legal statutes that cover protection of consumer data. Legally A user of Twitter is a consumer. Please don't mention that mumbo jumbo about "being the product".