Twitter Facing Formal EU Privacy Probe Over Android Flaw (1)

Jan. 25, 2019, 3:25 PM UTC

The Irish data protection authority has launched a formal investigation of Twitter Inc. related to its Android security flaw.

“The DPC has this week opened a new statutory inquiry into the latest data breach it received from Twitter on 8 January, 2019. This inquiry will examine a discreet issue relating to Twitter’s compliance with Article 33 of the GDPR,” Graham X. Doyle, head of communications for the Irish Data Protection Commission, told Bloomberg Law.

Article 33 of the General Data Protection Regulation requires companies to notify EU regulators within 72 hours after becoming aware of a data breach. Companies can ...

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