Twitter shared the location of some of its users

A failure in the Twitter application for iOS is responsible for the company collecting information on the location of users. Although the company was not aware of this and also, by accident, said information was subsequently shared with one of its advertising partners. The company has recognized this accident through an official statement, in which they admit this error in the application.

Twitter shared the location of some of its users

The company revealed that they intended to delete this location data. Something went wrong, though, and the partner got the precise data. Since the firm limited them only to the postal code or the city in a range of 5 km.

Error chain

Twitter confirms that this partner did not have access to sensitive user data due to this failure. In addition, the company has also revealed that they have already contacted the affected users, although they have not mentioned how many people have been affected by this failure in the app on iOS. We do not know if we will have a number soon or not.

The company has asked users to review their privacy settings in the app. Since if they want, they have the possibility to deactivate the exact location option manually in them.

A chain of errors by Twitter in this regard. Although it seems that it was not as serious as expected, or as it could have been. We will see if in these weeks there is more data, or if the company announces measures in this case.

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