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Twitter may face its first GDPR penalty inside days

European wisdom protection regulators have inched in opposition to an enforcement selection for a Twitter breach that the company publicly disclosed in 2019, after a majority of EU wisdom supervisors agreed to once more a draft agreement submitted previous by way of Eire’s Knowledge Safety Fee (DPC). Twitter d…
European data protection regulators have inched toward an enforcement decision for a Twitter breach that the company publicly disclosed in 2019, after a majority of EU data supervisors agreed to back a draft settlement submitted earlier by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC). Twitter d…

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Author: Natasha Lomas

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Natasha Lomas has recently written 4 articles on similar topics including :
  1. "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". (August 7, 2019)
  2. "Twitter users have to wait to longer to find out what penalties, if any, the platform faces under the European Unions General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for a data breach that dates back around two years". (August 20, 2020)
  3. "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)
  4. "The lead data regulator for much of big tech in Europe is moving inexorably towards issuing its first major cross-border GDPR decision saying today its submitted a draft decision related to Twitters business to its fellow EU watchdogs for review". (May 22, 2020)
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