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Irish watchdog fines Twitter in landmark for EU data privacy regime
Written by Business World, on 15th Dec 2020. Posted in Technology
Ireland s data regulator has fined Twitter 450,000 euros for a bug that made some private tweets public, the regulator said on Tuesday, in the first sanction against a U.S. 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.
GDPR has been in force since 2018, but the Twitter case is the first using a new dispute resolution system under which one lead national regulator makes a decision before consulting with the other EU national regulators.
Irish watchdog fines Twitter in landmark for EU data privacy regime
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland s data regulator has fined Twitter 450,000 euros for a bug that made some private tweets public, the regulator said on Tuesday, in the first sanction against a U.S. 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.
GDPR has been in force since 2018, but the Twitter case is the first using a new dispute resolution system under which one lead national regulator makes a decision before consulting with the other EU national regulators.
Updated Dec. 15, 2020 8:04 am ET
Two-and-a-half-years after going into effect, the European Union’s new privacy law has its first fine for a U.S. tech company in a cross-border case an overdue development, critics say.
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission said on Tuesday that it is fining Twitter Inc. €450,000, equivalent to about $546,000, for failing to document or properly notify the regulator within 72 hours of learning of a data breach disclosed in January 2019 that exposed some users’ private tweets.
“We take responsibility for this mistake and remain fully committed to protecting the privacy and data of our customers,” said Damien Kieran, Twitter’s chief privacy officer, adding that the delay in notification was an “unanticipated consequence of staffing between Christmas Day 2018 and New Years’ Day.”
RTÉ Courts Reporter
A decision by the Data Protection Commissioner that Facebook should suspend the transfer of personal data to its US parent company would have devastating consequences for the business and jeopardise the service for hundreds of millions of users, the High Court has heard.
Lawyers for Facebook Ireland said there was total absence of an investigatory stage before the DPC jumped the gun and issued a preliminary draft decision earlier this year.
In August the DPC informed Facebook it had opened an inquiry of its own volition under the provisions of GDPR in light of a judgment from the Court of Justice of the European Union handed down last July.