TECH - FTC Grills Jeff Bezos Over Use Of Signal's Auto-Delete Feature Amid Amazon's Antitrust Suit: 'I Can Make A Mistake' | Benzinga
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), faced intense questioning by the Federal Trade Commission or FTC over his alleged use of the encrypted messaging app Signal and its auto-delete feature.
What Happened: Last week, FTC accused Bezos and other top Amazon executives including CEO Andy Jassy of intentionally deleting Signal messages that could be relevant to an ongoing antitrust lawsuit against the company.
Now newly reported transcript from the complaint revealed that Bezos, in his testimony to the FTC in October 2022, mostly denied or refused to answer the agency’s questions. However, he also indicated that he may have continued to use Signal and the auto-delete function until 2022 for sensitive company issues unrelated to the lawsuit, reported Business Insider.
“I don’t know exactly when I stopped using it,” Bezos said, according to the transcript. “But I tried very hard to be careful not to use it, to preserve messages and only use disappearing messages on things that were not, you know, responsive to these document preservation requests.”
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