Twitter Fined EUR 4,50,000 in Ireland Over Bug That Made Some Private Tweets Public
The Twitter fine marks the first sanction against a US firm under a new European Union data privacy system. By Reuters | Updated: 15 December 2020 17:50 IST
Twitter is the subject of at least one other inquiry by the Irish regulator
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The Twitter fine relates to a 2019 probe into a bug in its Android app
Irish regulator has more than 20 major inquiries into US tech firms open
Ireland s data regulator has fined Twitter EUR 4,50,000 (roughly Rs. 4 crores) for a bug that made some private tweets public, in the first sanction against a US firm under a new European Union data privacy system.
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Twitter has been fined €450,000 by the Data Protection Commission (DPC) for its handling of a data breach last year.
The regulator found that the social media network failed to notify it of the breach in time as required under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
It also found that it failed to adequately document the breach, contrary to GDPR requirements.
The administrative fine is the first sizeable one imposed on a big tech firm by the DPC under GDPR.
In a statement, the DPC said it was an effective, proportionate and dissuasive measure .
The DPC began the probe in January 2019 after it received a breach notification from Twitter.
Twitter fined ~$550K over a data breach in Ireland’s first major GDPR decision
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has issued Twitter with a fine of €450,000 (~$547,000) for failing to promptly declare and properly document a data breach under Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The decision is noteworthy as it’s the first such cross-border GDPR decision by the Irish watchdog, which is the lead EU privacy supervisor for a number of tech giants having a backlog of some 20+ ongoing cases at this point, including active probes of Facebook, WhatsApp, Google, Apple and LinkedIn, to name a few.