Twitter admits revealing user locations without consent !!

in twiiter •  7 years ago 

Big disturbances in Twitter, company accepts

There is a debate around privacy around the world, and in the meantime another report has come out. Actually, the micro-blogging site Twitter acknowledged that due to a bug last week, users of some places were exposed to their tweets without their permission.

According to the news of the news, the social media giants said in a blog post, "We have identified a disturbance in which very few percent of users, who recently started location sharing, did not have their emoji or GIF Tweets in their The location of the city was visible only by permission. '

Twitter users allegedly tweeted about privacy issues last week. Users made this question directly with accounts linked with Twitter and its founders. Some users claimed that the locations added in their tweets were not their actual locations, but the places shown were there first or were searched by them on the micro-blogging site.

According to Inverse.com, the company has said that the location information has been removed from such tweets which were being affected due to the bug and the company is informing the users by sending an e-mail to them. This information about Twitter has come to Google two days after the disclosure of the information collected by Google through the Android smartphone without the data of the people.

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