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- December 15, 2020
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Twitter Fined $547K In Ireland
The social media company Twitter has been fined to the tune of €450,000 ($547,000) by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) over failure to notify…
The social media company Twitter has been fined to the tune of €450,000 ($547,000) by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) over failure to notify the commission of a data breach and ‘adequately’ document the breach, it says. The fine was imposed on Twitter International Company, a subsidiary of Twitter domiciled in Ireland.
The fine traces to a data breach suffered by Twitter in December 2018, whereas the company didn’t report it to the DPC within a 72-hour period, as stipulated by European GDPR laws. The Irish DPC took up the case as the lead regulator on behalf of the entire EU for the fact that many US-based tech giants maintain their European headquarters in the country, including Twitter.
In a press statement, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission described the Twitter fine as “an effective, proportionate and dissuasive measure.”
Twitter has accepted responsibility regarding its case and isn’t challenging the fine. The company’s case was one out of multiple investigations from the EU involving Silicon Valley tech giants. Likely, Facebook-owned WhatsApp could be getting a fine soon given that the Irish DPC issued a preliminary decision against it back in May.
