U.S._ Twitter ordered to pay $150 million for data privacy violations

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Twitter ordered to pay $150 million for data privacy violations

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By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times - Updated: 6:19 p.m. on Wednesday, May 25, 2022


The Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday ordered Twitter to pay $150 million in civil penalties for alleged data privacy violations.

The government said Twitter agreed to pay the fine.

The Justice Department said Twitter collected people’s phone numbers and email addresses while claiming it was for security purposes but then utilized that info for companies to send targeted ads to users.

“Twitter obtained data from users on the pretext of harnessing it for security purposes but then ended up also using the data to target users with ads,” said FTC chair Lina Khan in a statement. “This practice affected more than 140 million Twitter users, while boosting Twitter’s primary source of revenue.”

Twitter collected the data between May 2013 and September 2019.

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