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The purpose of two-factor authentication is to add another layer of safety for users of platforms, but for five-plus years, Twitter used the phone numbers that people provided for ad-targeting purposes, and now it will have to pay up.
The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice ordered Twitter to pay a $150 million penalty and banned it from profiting from the data that was collected under those pretenses.
For context, the fine is slightly less than the $170 million Google and YouTube were penalized ($136 million to the FTC and $34 million to New York State) in September 2019 for violations of the Children’s Privacy Law, but it is dwarfed by then-Facebook’s $5 billion settlement with the commission over the Cambridge Analytica data-sharing scandal, which was finalized in April 2020.
FTC chair Lina Khan said in a statement, “As the complaint notes, Twitter obtained data from users on the pretext of...
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