Twitter agreed to pay $150 million to regulators for allegedly misrepresenting security and privacy
2022 can’t end soon enough for Twitter. The beleaguered social media company has spent months trying to keep the world’s richest man from wussing out of buying the company and is currently dealing with the fallout of a whistleblower who’s called its cybersecurity practices into question. On top of all that, the company is still reeling from a recent $150 million settlement with the DOJ and FTC over allegations it misrepresented how it uses users’ nonpublic contact information.
A lawsuit filed against Twitter by the United States District Court for the Northern District of California accused the company of telling users it was collecting their phone numbers and email addresses for account security purposes when it was actually using that information to send targeted advertisements.
