Federal regulators accuse Amazon executives of deleting messages2024-04-26 18:38 by DanielaTags: Amazon, FTC
Amazon's top executives used the encrypted messaging app Signal to discuss "sensitive business matters," the Federal Trade Commission said in a court filing on Thursday. Jeff Bezos and other senior leaders used the app from 2019 to 2022, the FTC said, and made use of its disappearing message feature. The FTC needs the information "to assess whether Amazon failed to take reasonable steps to preserve documents and to map out what information has been destroyed," according to the agency's filing. The investigation into Amazon opened by the agency in 2019 required the company to retain and turn over documents. By using Signal's disappearing messages function, executives interfered with the FTC's ability to investigate Amazon’s business conduct and potential antitrust violations, the agency said. "Amazon executives deleted many Signal messages during Plaintiffs' pre-Complaint investigation, and Amazon did not instruct employees to preserve Signal messages until over fifteen months after Amazon knew that Plaintiffs' investigation was underway," the FTC claimed in the court filing. Some of the Amazon executives named in the filing as Signal users include CEO Andy Jassy, general counsel David Zapolsky, former worldwide consumer chief Jeff Wilke, and former worldwide operations CEO Dave Clark. Read more -here-
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