Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner said it has opened an investigation into Twitter’s compliance with the GDPR after the social media firm reported a number of breaches this year. In an official statement, the DPC said that it opened a statutory inquiry last November into Twitter’s compliance...
Twitter had reportedly exposed by accident the ability to look up an account’s phone number country code which could have been exploited by malicious actors to figure out which country the account is from. It is said that the leak could be disastrous for whistleblowers or...
Facebook and Twitter had reportedly taken action on a babysitting app from a California-based company called Predictim over personal data privacy concerns. The company claims to offer a babysitter vetting service where it provides a score out of 5 based on the applicant’s social media...
Twitter denied last week that it had leaked information on Saudi journalist Turki bin Abdul Aziz al-Jasser who was reportedly tortured and killed for running an account which exposed human rights violations by Saudi royalty and authorities. Some users have claimed that Al-Jasser was caught using...
New research suggest that the Pentagon, under the Trump Administration, is accelerating its efforts in conducting surveillance on social media to preempt Supported by official government documents and patent filings, it is said that the US government is pouring million of dollars into identifying patterns...
Last Saturday, the New York Times reported that Saudi Arabia might have “groomed” at Twitter employee into monitoring user accounts. The employee, Ali Alzabarah, worked at Twitter in 2013 as an engineer and was reportedly convinced by Saudi intelligence to look into user accounts. Upon learning...
The Irish Data Privacy Commissioner recently launched a formal investigation into privacy concerns raised by a UK professor regarding Twitter’s URL-shortening system. The probe was prompted by a request made by Prof. Michael Veale to Twitter, asking if the company’s link-shortening service “t.co” had collected any...
Twitter announced last Friday that a bug that affected its Account Activity API may have inadvertently exposed the direct messages and protected tweets of users to developers not meant to see them. While the company says that it has not discovered any such instances, it also...
New Mexico had reportedly filed a suit last Tuesday against Google, Twitter and mobile gaming app companies for illegally collecting the personal data of children. New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas says that the apps can accurately track the location of underaged users. The partnership...
Facebook and Twitter recently said that Europe’s new data privacy rules had caused the drop in users on their platforms. Facebook’s Chief Financial Officer David Wehner said that they already anticipated the declines that would be caused by the GDPR, and the impact was solely because...