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Twitter fined $546,000 in December 2020 by European Data Protection Authority for 2019 Breach Notification Violations
By Kathleen Porter on
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Twitter 450,000 euros (about US$546,000) for failing to timely notify the Irish DPC within the required 72 hours of discovering a Q4 2018 breach involving a bug in its Android app, and also for failing to adequately document that breach. The bug caused some 88,726 European Twitter users’…