Twitter Faces New EU Query Into Data Security Flaw (Corrected)

Twitter Inc. may face a new European Union privacy probe over a security flaw that impacted Android users who aimed to protect their tweets.

The social media giant Jan. 17 said in a blog post that a privacy setting for some Twitter for Android users may have been disabled. The new Twitter data security scandal adds to the company’s EU privacy woes. EU officials already were investigating the social media giant’s data breach response and privacy practices.

“The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has been notified of this data breach and we are currently assessing its contents,” Graham X. Doyle, ...