Twitter ‘Inadvertently’ Collected User Location Data Without Proper Consent
Twitter “inadvertently” collected and shared user iOS location data with an advertising partner without user consent, the platform blogged Monday. If a user was operating more than one Twitter account on iOS, the platform might have accidentally collected location data…
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for all accounts associated with the device, if the user opted into tracking on at least one account, the company said. The data was stored for a “short time” on the ad partners’ systems before deletion, the company said.