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What X's terms of service and privacy policy take from you today, and every material change. Read as served in: European Union, United States, United Kingdom, Australia. 2 material changes published.

EU European Union copy

Watched since 08 NOV 2025 · 12 archived versions read · Terms of Service, Privacy Policy

Dossier for this region is being prepared.

US United States copy

Watched since 13 APR 2026 · 5 archived versions read · Terms of Service, Privacy Policy

Where you stand today

X takes a broad, no-pay licence to use everything you post, including to train AI models and share with other companies, while limiting its liability to $100 and pushing US users into Texas courts with a class-action waiver.

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Documents read
Terms of Service · captured 10 OCT 2026 · 9,907 words · United States
Privacy Policy · captured 22 SEP 2026 · 5,491 words · United States

Privacy

X collects extensive data about you, including inferred identity across devices, ad-partner data and Direct Message contents, and combines it for ads and AI training.

Finding01
notable

Data from ad partners combined with your profile

X pulls in browsing and app activity from advertisers and partners and merges it with what it knows about you, even off X.

“Information shared by ad partners and affiliates or collected by X from the websites and apps of ad partners and affiliates may be combined with the other information you share with X and that X receives, generates, or infers about you described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy.”Exhibit · Privacy Policy✓ matched in source
Finding02
notable

X infers your identity across devices and when signed out

X links your account to other browsers and devices and may guess who you are even when you are not logged in.

“When you access X and are not signed in, we may infer your identity based on the information we collect.”Exhibit · Privacy Policy✓ matched in source
Finding03
notable

Third parties may use your data for their own purposes

If you do not opt out, recipients of your information may use it for their own goals, such as training their AI models.

“If you do not opt out, in some instances the recipients of the information may use it for their own independent purposes in addition to those stated in X’s Privacy Policy, including, for example, to train their artificial intelligence models, whether generative or otherwise.”Exhibit · Privacy Policy✓ matched in source

Countermeasures

  • Turn off data sharing with business partners in Privacy and Safety settings (does not cover all sharing).
  • Download a copy of your data.

AI and your content

You give X a worldwide licence to use your content for any purpose, including training AI, and to let other companies use it, with no payment.

Finding01
major

Licence to use your content for any purpose

X can use, modify and distribute what you post, and let others do the same, in any media, with no limit on purpose.

“you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display, upload, download, and distribute such Content, including anything referenced therein, in any and all media or distribution methods now known or later developed, for any purpose.”Exhibit · Terms of Service✓ matched in source
Finding02
major

Your content can train AI models

Your text and information can be used to train X's generative AI models, and no opt-out is stated in the Terms.

“including, for example, for use with and training of our machine learning and artificial intelligence models, whether generative or another type;”Exhibit · Terms of Service✓ matched in source
Finding03
major

Content passed to other companies without payment

Other companies and individuals may receive and republish your content, and you get no compensation beyond using X.

“Such additional uses by us, or other companies, organizations or individuals, is made with no compensation paid to you with respect to the Content that you submit, post, transmit or otherwise make available through the Services”Exhibit · Terms of Service✓ matched in source

Countermeasures

  • EU/EFTA/UK users: content shared to a restricted community stays restricted.

Your legal rights

For US users, disputes go to Texas courts under Texas law, with class action and jury waivers, a $100 liability cap and short time limits to sue.

Finding01
major

Class action and jury trial waiver

You cannot join or bring group lawsuits or have a jury, even against X's affiliates such as SpaceX entities.

“YOU AND X ARE EACH WAIVING THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY OR TO BRING, JOIN, OR PARTICIPATE IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS ACTION, COLLECTIVE ACTION, PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ACTION, OR OTHER REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING OF ANY KIND AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER.”Exhibit · Terms of Service✓ matched in source
Finding02
major

Liability capped at $100

Even if X harms you, the most you can recover is about $100 or what you paid in six months.

“IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF THE X ENTITIES EXCEED THE GREATER OF ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (U.S. $100.00) OR THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US, IF ANY, IN THE PAST SIX MONTHS FOR THE SERVICES GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM.”Exhibit · Terms of Service✓ matched in source
Finding03
major

Short deadlines to sue

You lose the right to bring a claim if you wait more than one year (federal) or two years and a day (state), and in the EU/UK one year for any claim.

“You and X agree that you must initiate any proceeding or action asserting a federal claim within one (1) year of the date of the occurrence of the event or facts giving rise to a dispute that is arising out of or related to these Terms or the Services.”Exhibit · Terms of Service✓ matched in source

Your account

X can change the service, remove content and end your account at its discretion, and changes to the Terms apply by continued use.

Finding01
major

Termination for any reason or no reason

Outside the EU/UK, X may end your account at its convenience without needing a cause.

“To the extent permitted by law, we may also terminate your account or cease providing you with all or part of the Services for any other reason or no reason at our convenience.”Exhibit · Terms of Service✓ matched in source
Finding02
major

Removal and username reclaiming without liability

X can remove your content, limit its visibility, suspend you and take your username with no liability to you.

“We may also remove or refuse to distribute any Content on the Services, limit distribution or visibility of any Content on the service, suspend or terminate users, and reclaim usernames without liability to you.”Exhibit · Terms of Service✓ matched in source
Finding03
notable

Terms can change; continued use means agreement

X only tries to notify you of material changes, and using the service afterwards counts as acceptance (outside the EU/UK, no fixed notice period).

“We will try to notify you of material revisions, for example via a service notification or an email to the email associated with your account.”Exhibit · Terms of Service✓ matched in source

Countermeasures

  • End the agreement by deactivating your account.
  • Appeal a termination you think was wrong.

Money

Little on pricing is in these documents, but ads are part of the deal and scraping at scale can trigger large fixed charges.

Finding01
notable

Fixed $15,000 charge for heavy post viewing

If you violate the Terms and access more than 1,000,000 posts in a day, you owe $15,000 per million, on top of other remedies.

“you will be jointly and severally liable to us for liquidated damages as follows for requesting, viewing, or accessing more than 1,000,000 posts (including reply posts, video posts, image posts, and any other posts) in any 24-hour period - $15,000 USD per 1,000,000 posts.”Exhibit · Terms of Service✓ matched in source
Finding02
minor

Ads are the price of access

You agree to see advertising, and your content may appear alongside it.

“In consideration for our granting you access to and use of the Services, you agree that we and our third-party providers and partners may place advertising on the Services or in connection with the display of Content or information from the Services whether submitted by you or others.”Exhibit · Terms of Service✓ matched in source

Government access

X may access, keep and disclose your information to authorities and others on its own reasonable belief, and may share it in a sale or merger.

Finding01
notable

Broad rights to read and disclose your information

X can access and disclose your information when it believes it is needed for legal requests, enforcement or protecting people or property, based on its own judgment.

“We also reserve the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose any information as we reasonably believe is necessary to (i) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request;”Exhibit · Terms of Service✓ matched in source
Finding02
notable

Age and identity data shared with partners

X may infer your age and identity and share this with partners and others for verification and compliance purposes.

“We may also share or disclose your age and identity information with our partners, service providers, and others for these purposes.”Exhibit · Privacy Policy✓ matched in source
Finding03
notable

Your data can be sold in a merger or bankruptcy

Information about you can be transferred to a new owner as part of a deal.

“We may share, sell, or transfer information about you in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, or bankruptcy.”Exhibit · Privacy Policy✓ matched in source

Machine-checked: every point was re-checked against the documents by a second, independent model pass; not yet read by a person

UK United Kingdom copy

Watched since 13 APR 2026 · 5 archived versions read · Terms of Service, Privacy Policy

Dossier for this region is being prepared.

AU Australia copy

Watched since 14 APR 2026 · 7 archived versions read · Terms of Service, Privacy Policy

Dossier for this region is being prepared.

Timeline

Changes to X's terms

10 SEP 2026major
X adds arbitration fallback, bans injunctive relief in arbitration, and extends waivers to SpaceXAI, Cursor, SpaceX

US Terms of Service · machine-checked

16 JUL 2026minor
X limits Irish regulator complaint reference to EU residents in privacy policy

US Privacy Policy

Unconfirmed

Held for verification