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Twitter Hit With Fine For Violating The EU's General Data Protection Regulation
Summary: The Irish Data Protection Center has found that Twitter failed to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation, a European Union law aiming to protect data privacy and hold companies accountable for data breaches, as reported by DeCrypt. The ruling comes after a two year long investigation into the charges and comes attached with a $546,000 ...
The Irish Data Protection Center has found that Twitter failed to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation, a European Union law aiming to protect data privacy and hold companies accountable for data breaches, as reported by DeCrypt.
The ruling comes after a two year long investigation into the charges and comes attached with a $546,000 fine, representing about 0.016% of Twitter’s $3.46 billion revenue for the fiscal year 2019.
Twitter disclosed data breaches to the DPC in January 2019, but the office has said that it wasn’t the breaches themselves that got Twitter fined, as much as the company’s failure to properly report and document them within the 72-hour window mandated by the GDPR.
By Emily Mason
Tags: European Union,General Data Protection Regulation,Twitter
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