Twitter To Pay $150 Million To Settle Claims Over Data Privacy Misrepresentations

Mealey's (May 31, 2022, 12:07 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal magistrate judge on May 26 signed a stipulated order, enforcing an agreement between the U.S. government and Twitter Inc., under which the social network operator agrees to pay a civil penalty of $150 million to settle claims that it violated federal law and ran afoul of a decade-old agreement with the Federal Trade Commission regarding the security and privacy of its users’ nonpublic contact information....