Twitter ‘fesses up to more adtech leaks

Twitter has disclosed more bugs related to how it uses personal data for ad targeting that means it may have shared users data with advertising partners even when a user had expressly told it not to. Back in May the social network disclosed a bug that in certain conditions resulted in an account’s …
Twitter has disclosed more bugs related to how it uses personal data for ad targeting that means it may have shared users data with advertising partners even when a user had expressly told it not to. Back in May the social network disclosed a bug that in certain conditions resulted in an account’s …

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Author: Natasha Lomas

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  2. "An investigation into this summers Twitter hack by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYSDFS) has ended with a stinging rebuke for how easily Twitter let itself be duped by a simple social engineering technique and with a wider call for key social medi". (October 14, 2020)
  3. "Apples CEO Tim Cook has urged Europe to step up privacy enforcement in a keynote speech to the CPDP conference today echoing many of the points he made in Brussels in person two years ago when he hit out at the data industrial complex underpinning the adtech industry&#8". (January 28, 2021)
  4. "A study of tracking cookies running on government and public sector health websites in the European Union has found commercial adtech to be operating pervasively even in what should be core not-for-profit corners of the Internet". (March 18, 2019)
  5. "A dossier of evidence detailing how the online ad-targeting industry profiles internet users intimate characteristics without their knowledge or consent has been published today by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL), piling more pressure on the countrys data watchdog to take". (September 21, 2020)
  6. "It’s a year since Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force and leaky adtech is now facing privacy complaints in four more European Union markets". (May 20, 2019)
  7. "The German Federal Cartel Office’s decision to order Facebook to change how it processes users’ personal data this week is a sign the antitrust tide could at last be turning against platform power". (February 10, 2019)
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