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Twitter agrees to $150M settlement with DOJ, FTC over data privacy lapses
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Jeff Dale2022-05-26T18:39:00
Twitter agreed to a $150 million settlement with the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission for violating a 2011 administrative order by “misrepresenting” how it used nonpublic user information.
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