X (Twitter)

Right now, by DEFAULT, X shares your public posts AND your private conversations with its own AI chatbot Grok with xAI, to train and improve Grok's models — the opt-out is buried in a 'Third-party Collaborators' settings menu most people will never find. This isn't X's first offense: the 2022 $150 million FTC penalty was for secretly using phone numbers/emails collected for TWO-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION SECURITY to sell targeted ads instead — and that itself violated an EARLIER 2011 FTC order for a similar broken privacy promise. In June 2026, X petitioned to end the FTC's oversight early, arguing (among other things) that being freed from the order is 'critical to advancing American leadership in artificial intelligence' — in plain terms, X wants out of privacy oversight partly so it can feed more of your data into Grok without restriction. A coalition of fifteen advocacy groups (including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, EPIC, Consumer Federation of America and Public Citizen) called this a 'brazen attempt to escape accountability at the expense of the American people.' As of this writing, the outcome is still undecided.

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• Last verified2026-08-04

Primary source. www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2026/06/ftc-seeks-comment-x-corp-petition-set-aside-or-modify-ftc-order-concerning-twitter — Verified - primary source confirmed.

Arbitration

Not independently confirmed this pass — standard binding arbitration + class action waiver expected.

Contacts

Privacy contact. Not recorded.

Legal notice. Not verified this pass. If publicly traded: SEC Form 10-K cover page gives the official corporate address; the Secretary of State business-entity search in the state of incorporation gives the registered agent, which must accept service. If private: the state registered agent is usually the only reliable route.

Mailing address. Not recorded.