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THE DATA PROTECTION Commission (DPC) has issued Twitter with a fine of €450,000 for its handling of a data breach under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The DPC opened an investigation into Twitter in January 2019 after the company publicly disclosed that it had inadvertently made some users’ private tweets public.
The regulator found that the social media company failed to promptly declare and properly document the breach.
It’s the first such cross-border GDPR decision by the commission, which serves as the lead European Union privacy supervisor for a number of tech giants.
The watchdog described the fine as “an effective, proportionate and dissuasive measure”.
The regulation requires most breaches of personal data to be notified to the relevant supervisory authority within 72 hours of the controller becoming aware of the breach.
It also stipulates that they document what data was involved and how they’ve responded to the security incident. Twitter was found to have failed on both counts in this case.
GDPR allows for fines of up to €30 million or 4% of global turnover, whichever is higher, to be imposed on companies that breach the regulation.
Twitter said an unanticipated consequence of staffing between Christmas Day 2018 and New Years’ Day resulted in it notifying the commission outside of the 72 hour period.
“We have made changes so that all incidents following this have been reported to the DPC in a timely fashion,” it said.
We take responsibility for this mistake and remain fully committed to protecting the privacy and data of our customers, including through our work to quickly and transparently inform the public of issues that occur.
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That’s fierce complicated.
iKnow right?
Why do Apple bury some many fantastic things so that they are hidden from us? Do they know about them themselves? Wish they would make a better on-screen keyboard for the iPad.
“Reading under the covers” mode, I’ve wanted this for so long. Thanks!
Good tip. I use my phone as an alarm clock at night. Even turned down, the screen is still very bright. This should help
Don’t have an iPhone but have my phone set to the lowest setting due to photophobia after a papercut to the eyeball. Sometimes when it kicks up stink I have to wear sunglasses looking at the phone.
Ahh ohhh “papercut in the eyeball”
That comment should have a warning!!
Ahhh Jesus wept!!!
Tell me… is it only iPhone’s that allow you to adjust brightness?!
No, in Android it’s in settings… pretty obvious. Another Apple over complication of a basic function.
This tip isn’t in settings is it not george?
@George Indeed it’s fairly simply on Android hence the sarcasm.
Tired. Missed tone of voice, seeing as it’s text. :p Let it go; you know full well far dumber things have been asked here…
Screen brightness is in settings on an iphone too and its not over complicated. It says ‘display and brightness’ did you check before you commented?
Even simpler to swipe up from bottom and adjust the brightness slider
Quinton, thank u for telling me & ur information seems useful. Be beware, NSA might be unimpressed as secret has broken out!
Poxy iphone, who’s gives a monkey’s nut.
People with iPhones
T-bone, d:ckhead
I smell dumb
Old man talkin tough, ain’t that cute
What about settings>display and brightness? Seems much simpler if you ask me.
That’s what I’ve been doing but this way makes it much duller again
Ah john,
Read the article.
Ah John. Your just misunderstood.
I like the tip. Did it on the iPad. Instructions could be better. Just sayin.
I don’t get it… Swipe up, move brightness to the left, job done. I can barely see it when it’s all the way to the left. Just what does this complicated method do that the brightness adjuster doesn’t? I can’t be arsed going through all that to check.
Hidden depths!
Using this feature ages and it really is very useful darkens the screen much lower than the standard brightness setting allows makes reading at night much better. And it’s handy just triple clicking when you need to lower the light for whatever reason in cinema etc.
Triple tap the home screen with 3 finger tips for a shortcut
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