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Why would the FTC even use Signal for communication?
Amazon employees were using signal to coordinate anticonsumer policies and then destroyed the records, which the FTC had ordered them to preserve. At least, that's how I read it.
So..... Throw them in jail? Make them accountable? Revoke the companies ability to do business till the records are provided?
Then again, that's just fantasy because the laws don't matter if you're Rick/big enough anymore.
I would like to non-sarcastically point you to my top level comment in this thread ❤️
The FTC didn't use Signal, Amazon did though for internal communications. When FTC started their investigation, Amazon quickly used the features of signal to delete all their internal communications because they were too spicy for the public and the FTC.
I would have thought the FTC would know how to save the conversations.
Oh... I somehow understood the article as if Amazon used Signal to communicate with the FTC... Yeah that makes more sense...