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Ireland”s data regulator has fined Twitter €450,000, in the first sanction against the company under new EU data privacy laws.
Twitter was found to have breached GDPR rules – or General Data Protection Regulation – relating to a data breach discovered in 2018, whereby tweets by users who had protected accounts were actually unprotected and viewable to the wider public.
If a user protects their account, it means only their approved followers can see their tweets.
However a bug in Twitter’s system meant if users on an Android device changed the email address associated with their account, the protected tweets became unprotected without the user’s knowledge.
