US regulators allege the company gave advertisers user contact information collected in the name of security
Twitter will pay a $150m penalty and put in new safeguards to settle federal regulators’ allegations that the social media company gave advertisers improper access to users’ personal information.
From May 2013 to September 2019, the agencies said in a complaint filed on Wednesday, Twitter told users that it was collecting their phone numbers and email addresses for purposes of account security. But the company failed to disclose that it also would use the information to enable companies to send targeted online ads to users, according to the agencies.
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