Twitter to pay $150 million for selling users data for Ads

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Quote from: Jawhead999 on May 27, 2022, 08:36:25 AM

That's why having a social media account will risking your KYC,.I have an accounts before, but I decided to delete it all and only become a guest if I want to read any posts or news on there.

I am starting to worry about my data, to be honest I have some social media accounts. I've FB account, Twitter account, Instagram account, and some other social media accounts. Unfortunately, these accounts are created for important purposes such as job requirements. Should I delete all my social media accounts, brother?

Quote from: Upgrade00 on May 27, 2022, 09:56:06 AM

Once personal data is shared, it should be considered to no longer be personal, regardless of what the other party claims they wish to use it for.

You are right. When we shared it to register accounts on social media, they know our data and possibly use it as well.
But it is sometimes hard to avoid since everyone must have a social media account as it is a necessary thing for now.

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Quote from: add1ct3dd on June 02, 2022, 04:29:29 AM

I would be happy if some of the money can go to us because it was our data's not and not the one's who sues twitter. Why they are doing this all the time? They accuse and want's to sue's every social media sites for the same reasons. They will say something like this xxx company have been selling the data's and personal information of its users while we the real costumers didn't even worry that much.

I don't know if the old founders of twitter can contribute something for the payment because they controlled twitter for a long time or is the new twitter owners are going to pay all of these charges? That's going to be a bad start then for them.

This is what bothers me the most. By this logic the ones who got our data made profit, the ones who sold our data made profit, the ones who punished twitter got profit, and even though it is our data that caused all of us this, none of us got any money at all.

Makes no sense to me to be fair, I would like to see some of that money because all of this money was made based on my data, my information, all the things related to me but I am the only one who didn't make a single dollar out of it. Even if it is just 10 cents, it should be given out to each person that data included, it is not about the money but more about the notion behind it.

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Quote from: Cookdata on June 02, 2022, 05:14:25 PM

Quote from: Joshapat on June 02, 2022, 09:03:15 AM

When we register on any site that requires data such as email, mobile phone, even in exchanges today that most must provide data for KYC will make us always worry if the data we provide is sold, anything for money then can make controversy things, and Of the many cases of hack data in many exchanges and sites like Facebook and Twitter, I never verify KYC.

Looking at Twitter situation is different, they don't request for documentation to KYC, so no one will suspect them of selling users data, they requested for email and phone but in your mind, you will think they are doing that to reduce spam and make sure that those who have registered are valid users but it verified real emails and phone numbers are one of the few the most lucrative business on internet, they have people on dark web who are ready to buy this phone numbers and email base on locations on their IP address.

Every information that you had able to put online will really reflect out or would really be in connection on legit users/persons which could really be used on other means and its not surprising that these platforms

would really be attached or tagged on such issue on selling out personal users data and there's nothing we can do about it yet we had provided them since from the start on using their platform from emails to phone

numbers which same as you said that these these are valuable these days which high tendency or chances for it to be sold in unknown markets.

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Quote from: Joshapat on June 02, 2022, 09:03:15 AM

When we register on any site that requires data such as email, mobile phone, even in exchanges today that most must provide data for KYC will make us always worry if the data we provide is sold, anything for money then can make controversy things, and Of the many cases of hack data in many exchanges and sites like Facebook and Twitter, I never verify KYC.

Looking at Twitter situation is different, they don't request for documentation to KYC, so no one will suspect them of selling users data, they requested for email and phone but in your mind, you will think they are doing that to reduce spam and make sure that those who have registered are valid users but it verified real emails and phone numbers are one of the few the most lucrative business on internet, they have people on dark web who are ready to buy this phone numbers and email base on locations on their IP address.

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Quote from: Sir Legend on June 01, 2022, 09:57:28 AM

I have heard several times from start-up companies claiming that their consumer data was hacked, from the start I believed that it might not have been hacked but sold, it can be seen that email and my mobile phone received offers from insurance, and many services offered and I never knew before.

That is because 99% of the companies that do not charge you anything for using it (like facebook, twitter, instagram, google etcetc) all make money from ads. What does ads achieve? They sell stuff to people who are interested in those things. Like for example my twitter is filled with ads regarding crypto, and all from crypto companies.

Because, twitter basically sold my data to those companies, even if they do not directly give (which OP shows that they actually did) it means that any company could say "people interested in crypto" and twitter will show it to me, hence it is basically selling my data the same way, just not directly.

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When we register on any site that requires data such as email, mobile phone, even in exchanges today that most must provide data for KYC will make us always worry if the data we provide is sold, anything for money then can make controversy things, and Of the many cases of hack data in many exchanges and sites like Facebook and Twitter, I never verify KYC.

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I would be happy if some of the money can go to us because it was our data's not and not the one's who sues twitter. Why they are doing this all the time? They accuse and want's to sue's every social media sites for the same reasons. They will say something like this xxx company have been selling the data's and personal information of its users while we the real costumers didn't even worry that much.

I don't know if the old founders of twitter can contribute something for the payment because they controlled twitter for a long time or is the new twitter owners are going to pay all of these charges? That's going to be a bad start then for them.

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These companies and their privacy are ridiculous and I wish that they would come down harder on them as they all seem to keep doing the same stuff over and over. Facebook of course being one of if not the worst of all. I live in Illinois and there was a class action lawsuit recently where many facebook users in Illinois were given around $400-600 dollars. The thing that sucks is you had to sign up for the suit by a certain point in time which I missed. Probably because I keep my account deactivated but still, I feel wronged in a way for not being paid that out as they stole my data too.

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I have heard several times from start-up companies claiming that their consumer data was hacked, from the start I believed that it might not have been hacked but sold, it can be seen that email and my mobile phone received offers from insurance, and many services offered and I never knew before.

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Quote from: Wakate on May 30, 2022, 06:31:25 PM

This is a good move to me because Twitter had been into this for long and they needed to be prosecuted with huge fines that is more than what had been presented in the court of law. I hope this will limit Twitter when it comes to sharing the privacy of users during ads uses. I think Twitter is not left out here alone but also other social media like Facebook, Instagram etc. It is obvious that there are still other privacy matters like this one that need to be unvealed to the public. The government have to be very serious about this so it will prevent contineous occurrence.

Privacy violations committed by twitter of course have caused distrust of its users over the years, even previous twitter had received a fine of £400,000 in December 2020 for violating the European GDPR data privacy rules, but surprisingly they are now doing the same thing again with using user data for targeted advertising, I think that with this case, social media is indeed not safe a place to save our data, because previously the largest social media in the world, Facebook was also involved in a user data leak scandal and they should be fined around 5 million dollars in 2019.
With 2 cases that hit the 2 largest social media today, of course we as users should be careful in providing our original data to second parties (social media).

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AFAIK every website and media platform requesting end user agreement to tracking cookies sells user data.

Even state and government sectors like the DMV (department of motor vehicles) have been publicized selling data for millions of citizens.

They should blanket ban the process of collecting user data or leave it unregulated.

Arbitrarily selecting some corporations for punishment while leaving thousands of others unpenalized is a disproportionate approach of addressing the issue.

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This is a good move to me because Twitter had been into this for long and they needed to be prosecuted with huge fines that is more than what had been presented in the court of law. I hope this will limit Twitter when it comes to sharing the privacy of users during ads uses. I think Twitter is not left out here alone but also other social media like Facebook, Instagram etc. It is obvious that there are still other privacy matters like this one that need to be unvealed to the public. The government have to be very serious about this so it will prevent contineous occurrence.

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Quote from: avikz on May 30, 2022, 01:48:25 PM

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Quote from: bitgov on May 29, 2022, 05:03:18 AM

Quote from: jrrsparkles on May 29, 2022, 02:36:57 AM

Almost every tech companies are doing this so why the Twitter alone? No data we enter into the social media is safe anymore because we are their products and they make money by only selling our data to the advertisement companies so anyone who think they're at the safer platform then has to rethink about it but wait they are doing more worse than just selling our numbers and email which is the spying of all our activities because they have access to all the things from camera, microphone, file manager,etc...

Once I watched a video in which the judge asked Mark Zuckerberg - he asked Mark - would you like to tell public in which restaurant you ate last night and where did you go last week? He said No, the judged said why are you making people's information public than? So they want different rules for themselves and other rules for public.

Well in the Facebook he created an environment where people are addicted to it to expose themselves for likes and to satisfy their goals they start to expose everything as much as they can and Facebook just helped the people to organise it so they can sell for better prices and also concentrated data. Already Facebook and other tech companies sued by lot of cases on different countries and also many of them even make them to pay in Billion still they can operate after simply paying the fine.

They have no other choice but to continue this practice. Data is the most valuable commodity at today's date. Big companies like Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram will shut down if they are not allowed to use their user's data.

Try using Facebook's Business manager and try setting up an advertisement. You will understand how specific selections you can make. That is a goldmine for the businesses who can target specific user class for their business which will give them great result. So next time if you see a digital platform offering their platform for free, you must know that you will be paying through your data.

Would really be just that common sense that they would really be using something to monetize and since its also a business then its understandable with that kind of probability on using up those
precious user's data and there's nothing we can do with it and if you dont like that of practice then you could leave anytime and find another else but since its one of the most famous
social media platform then you won't really be having any choice but to accept on what are the things that they could possibly do in the future and just like this one where users
data is been sold, so better take a good grasp on it.

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Quote from: jrrsparkles on May 29, 2022, 08:59:42 AM

Quote from: bitgov on May 29, 2022, 05:03:18 AM

Quote from: jrrsparkles on May 29, 2022, 02:36:57 AM

Almost every tech companies are doing this so why the Twitter alone? No data we enter into the social media is safe anymore because we are their products and they make money by only selling our data to the advertisement companies so anyone who think they're at the safer platform then has to rethink about it but wait they are doing more worse than just selling our numbers and email which is the spying of all our activities because they have access to all the things from camera, microphone, file manager,etc...

Once I watched a video in which the judge asked Mark Zuckerberg - he asked Mark - would you like to tell public in which restaurant you ate last night and where did you go last week? He said No, the judged said why are you making people's information public than? So they want different rules for themselves and other rules for public.

Well in the Facebook he created an environment where people are addicted to it to expose themselves for likes and to satisfy their goals they start to expose everything as much as they can and Facebook just helped the people to organise it so they can sell for better prices and also concentrated data. Already Facebook and other tech companies sued by lot of cases on different countries and also many of them even make them to pay in Billion still they can operate after simply paying the fine.

They have no other choice but to continue this practice. Data is the most valuable commodity at today's date. Big companies like Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram will shut down if they are not allowed to use their user's data.

Try using Facebook's Business manager and try setting up an advertisement. You will understand how specific selections you can make. That is a goldmine for the businesses who can target specific user class for their business which will give them great result. So next time if you see a digital platform offering their platform for free, you must know that you will be paying through your data.

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Quote from: bitgov on May 29, 2022, 05:03:18 AM

Quote from: jrrsparkles on May 29, 2022, 02:36:57 AM

Almost every tech companies are doing this so why the Twitter alone? No data we enter into the social media is safe anymore because we are their products and they make money by only selling our data to the advertisement companies so anyone who think they're at the safer platform then has to rethink about it but wait they are doing more worse than just selling our numbers and email which is the spying of all our activities because they have access to all the things from camera, microphone, file manager,etc...

Once I watched a video in which the judge asked Mark Zuckerberg - he asked Mark - would you like to tell public in which restaurant you ate last night and where did you go last week? He said No, the judged said why are you making people's information public than? So they want different rules for themselves and other rules for public.

Well in the Facebook he created an environment where people are addicted to it to expose themselves for likes and to satisfy their goals they start to expose everything as much as they can and Facebook just helped the people to organise it so they can sell for better prices and also concentrated data. Already Facebook and other tech companies sued by lot of cases on different countries and also many of them even make them to pay in Billion still they can operate after simply paying the fine.

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Can't be really surprised when a big company and organization gives some promises but in the end, they forget everything and break all the promises they gave to their clients. While some people are thinking most of the great and famous companies will neer abuse the data they get from the users the companies all always thinking about how you abuse their users and milk more money from them or from their information, In is case apologizing will never solve anything however it was a good a memorable lesson for many people about sharing their personal information on the social media, these nowadays data is the most valuable thing on the internet and surly for any company that's not really unexpecting to abuse the data they collect from the users.

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Quote from: jrrsparkles on May 29, 2022, 02:36:57 AM

Almost every tech companies are doing this so why the Twitter alone? No data we enter into the social media is safe anymore because we are their products and they make money by only selling our data to the advertisement companies so anyone who think they're at the safer platform then has to rethink about it but wait they are doing more worse than just selling our numbers and email which is the spying of all our activities because they have access to all the things from camera, microphone, file manager,etc...

Once I watched a video in which the judge asked Mark Zuckerberg - he asked Mark - would you like to tell public in which restaurant you ate last night and where did you go last week? He said No, the judged said why are you making people's information public than? So they want different rules for themselves and other rules for public.

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Almost every tech companies are doing this so why the Twitter alone? No data we enter into the social media is safe anymore because we are their products and they make money by only selling our data to the advertisement companies so anyone who think they're at the safer platform then has to rethink about it but wait they are doing more worse than just selling our numbers and email which is the spying of all our activities because they have access to all the things from camera, microphone, file manager,etc...

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I remember the words somewhere, "if any company gives you completely free of charge to use their amazing service, you are actually their main product". As people think above, millions of user data is worth more than $150 million and that won't stop Twitter from continuing its mission.
I think I recognize the signs of a company that performs this operation, as they always ask for my up-to-date information which is not really needed.

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Quote from: Johnyz on May 28, 2022, 05:54:34 PM

Quote from: Upgrade00 on May 28, 2022, 11:20:56 AM

Quote from: justdimin on May 28, 2022, 07:39:28 AM

This shows that these data could be used to literally rule the world.

Precisely.
During the era of door to door sales; salesmen have to knock on the doors of tens or hundreds of people, majority of who are not interested in the product being put on sale. Fast forward to today, companies can simply collect datat of what user searched for what product, or who said what in a conversation, market that data to retail services with location of the potential customers and this is just a pinch of what data could be used to do.

Confidential data should be more safe on a company like this but then again, they failed to do so and that’s why they are being fined by that huge amount of money. With the technology that we have right now, I think many of us are already exposed so better to use every security feature to assure that your personal account are more safe. Twitter is not the only company who are doing this, many are still have under the table transactions.

High likely that it is not only twitter, only that they are being exposed. Other social media channels for sure are also guilty but they need to find evidence about the deception among its users. This is why I am not really into social media. You should limit your information that you share publicly, because this is where scammers also find their vulnerable victims. As much as possible, safeguard your privacy by not patronizing these social media channels. If you are just after for the likes of people, then, better not do it. They won't help you when you really need actual help.

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