Twitter Says May Have Leaked User Personal Data to Ad Partners Due to Technical Glitch

BATTLE FOR WORLD / SPUTNIK NEWS | August 8, 2019: The article highlights that the social media company Twitter has revealed that certain personal data of users could have been used for targeted advertising without their permission due to problems with settings of the social network. That problems were found related to settings choices, which “may not have worked as intended.”

According to the company statement: “If you clicked or viewed an advertisement for a mobile application and subsequently interacted with the mobile application since May 2018, we may have shared certain data (e.g., country code, if you engaged with the ad and when, information about the ad, etc) with trusted measurement and advertising partners, even if you didn’t give us permission to do so.”

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