Twitter fined by Ireland over bug that made private tweets public, in world first for EU data privacy law
Ireland has fined the company €450,000 for its failure to quickly report the breach, which was the result of a bug in the Android app.
It is the first time that a US company has been fined under a new data privacy system instituted in the EU as part of its General Data Protection Regulation regime.
The fine related to an issue in Twitter’s app that emerged in 2019. A technical problem meant that tweets that were supposed to be protected could be viewed by the public, the Irish Data Protection Commission said.
