The European Union regulator has penalized a big United States technology firm under GDPR legislation for the first time. This United States firm name is Twitter and its fine amount is €450,000 by the Data Protection Commission in Ireland for breaking Twitter fined £400,000 for breaking European Union data lawEurope’s GDPR data privacy rules.
After this fined Twitter has accepted the responsibility. It ruled that Twitter failed to notify it within 72 hours after identifying a data breach in January 2019, and it also did not adequately document what had happened.
Twitter’s chief Damien Kieran privacy officer and global data protection officer said, “We respect the IDPC’s decision, which relates to a failure in our incident response process”.
After that this fine the IDPC said that it believed the fine was “an effective, proportionate and dissuasive measure”.
This is related to a bug affecting and the Android users who had made their tweets private that’s mean if they made some changes to their account, their tweets could have been made public in error.
The bug dated back to the year 2014, the tech firm said at the time.
In the Year January 2019, It was disclosed and the DPC began its investigation shortly afterward.
Darren Wray, of privacy firm Guardum, said that the penalty was a sign that the teeth of the GDPR were “getting sharper”.
Darren Wray also said a statement, “At this case should send a message to large technology firms that they need to take their data privacy responsibilities very seriously”.
The fine does not relate to the hacking of celebrity Twitter accounts which happened in the summer. Twitter later revealed that it had happened as a result of spear phishing and human error.
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