Twitter is paying $150 million to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that it misled its users about the privacy and data protections on its website, according to court documents . The settlement stems from Twitter’s 2019 disclosure that it collected phone numbers and email addresses for account security purposes but failed to tell users that the information was also used for targeting...
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