Twitter was issued a fine of EUR 450,000 by the Irish DPA for violating Art. 33 (1) and Art. 33 (5) GDPR, regarding the failure to notify the DPA of a data breach, and the inadequate documentation of the data breach. This data breach was linked to privacy settings of users on Twitter. Users would have the option to set a post as private, in which case only subscribers of that respective user would see the post, or public. A programming bug on the Twitter Android app resulted in posts marked as “private” to be publicly visible to the entire Twitter consumer base. This data breach should have been reported to the DPA in 72 hours and properly documented. Twitter International Company failed to do both these tasks. Their legal team found out about the data breach on January 2nd, 2019, and only notified the DPA about it on January 8th.
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