The Twitter fine relates to a 2019 probe into a bug in its Android app, where some users’ protected tweets were made public. — AFP
DUBLIN: Ireland’s data regulator has fined Twitter €450,000 (RM2.21mil) for a bug that made some private tweets public, the regulator said on Tuesday, in the first sanction against a US firm under a new European Union data privacy system.
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation’s (GDPR) “One Stop Shop” regime makes Ireland’s Data Protection Commission lead regulator of Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Google in the bloc, due to the location of their EU headquarters.
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