Twitter (And 17 Others) Being Sued For Privacy Violations
Twitter is one defendant among 17 being named in a privacy lawsuit. The company and its co-defendants are being accused by 13 individuals of uploading user address books on smartphones without permission or notification.
The lawsuit is a direct result of the controversy around Path – and eventually dozens of other companies – uploading and storing users’ address books when users were promoted to connect with their friends, without permission.
Twitter was not immune from the privacy advocates’ wrath, as it was revealed last month that Twitter, too, was guilty of this practice, uploading
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