Twitter Fined Half a Million Dollars for Privacy Violation
Twitter Fined Half a Million Dollars for Privacy Violation Twitter has been fined over half a million dollars for violating European Union data protection laws in the first EU-wide privacy case. The EU's chief data watchdog today announced that it has issued an administrative fine of 450,000 euros ($547,000) to the social media titan for being too slow to notify Android phone users located across the EU of a data breach that threatened their privacy. A further finding of the investigation into the breach by Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) was t...
Source: infosecurity-magazine.com