We are still waiting for a definitive statement from #Twitter regarding whether or not Musk has access to users' private DMs (Direct Messages -- many of which involve account-related customer support conversations with a multitude of firms, and other personal discussions), whether he has been viewing users DMs without their knowledge, and who else currently at Twitter has been viewing these DMs or has the capability to do so.
I see I should say this even more explicitly. We need #Twitter and Musk ON THE RECORD regarding who at Twitter currently has access to users' private Direct Messages (DMs), and who there currently has actually looked at any of them without the permission and/or notification of those users. This would include Musk looking directly at those DMs, or his tasking someone else at Twitter to do so and report anything "interesting" they find to him. ON THE RECORD.
@lauren FWIW I had a conversation with a googler lately about this. At google looking at people's private data is a walk you out the door right now, firing offense. They will and have done this.
@denebeim Oh yes. I've worked inside #Google twice. Their explicit rules, approvals, logging and "need to know" requirements for access to user data are most impressive. This is why I have a great deal of trust in Google, and consider Elon's #Twitter to be utterly untrustworthy and totally beneath contempt.
