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Twitter admits to more bugs that shared your data without permission

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Geekz Snow
Twitter admits to more bugs that shared your data without permission

Twitter said it has fixed two more bugs related to how it uses personally identifiable information to target personalized ads on the platform.

The flaws mean Twitter may have inadvertently shared your data with advertising partners even if you had explicitly not granted permission to do so.

To that effect, the company said it “recently” found issues where users’ choices in the service’s settings may not have been honored, resulting in certain data like “country code, if you engaged with the ad and when, information about the ad” shared with its advertising partners.

This transpired only if a Twitter user clicked or viewed an ad for a mobile application and subsequently interacted with the mobile app, it said.

The company acknowledged the leak has been happening at least since May 2018 — right around the time GDPR data protection regulations went into effect in the EU.

We recently discovered and fixed issues related to your settings choices for the way we deliver personalized ads, and when we share certain data with trusted measurement and advertising partners.

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