{"id":835,"date":"2020-04-10T10:02:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T10:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo6.aiwalls.com\/ipapps\/?p=835"},"modified":"2020-04-10T10:02:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T10:02:44","slug":"twitter-admits-phone-numbers-meant-for-security-used-for-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/?p=835","title":{"rendered":"Twitter admits phone numbers meant for security used for ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic1.tadke.com\/imgs\/tech2lims\/0409\/ep1y5teoe5e.jpg\" alt=\"For tech giants such as Twitter, privacy and internet data are hot political topics\"><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js mt-3\">\n                For tech giants such as Twitter, privacy and internet data are hot political topics<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><p>Twitter on Tuesday apologized after &#8220;inadvertently&#8221; using phone numbers and email addresses for advertising even though the personal data was provided for account security.<\/p>\n<p>        <!-- \/4988204\/TechX_Story_InText_Box --><\/p>\n<p>Twitter users&#8217; phone numbers and email addresses\u2014submitted to allow for account authentication\u2014were matched with advertisers&#8217; own data to enable targeted ads.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you provided an email address or phone number for safety or security purposes this data may have inadvertently been used for advertising purposes,&#8221; Twitter said in an online post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was an error and we apologize.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>None of the user data was shared with partners outside the company, and it was unclear how many people were affected,the San Francisco-based company said.<\/p>\n<p>The issue was fixed in mid-September, Twitter said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re very sorry this happened and are taking steps to make sure we don&#8217;t make a mistake like this again,&#8221; Twitter said.<\/p>\n<p>Privacy and internet data are hot political topics worldwide, with tech giants such as Twitter and Facebook in the crosshairs of regulators.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For tech giants such as Twitter, privacy and internet data are hot political topics Twitter on Tuesday apologized after &#8220;inadvertently&#8221; using phone numbers and email<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[361,358,357,359,360],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accessories","tag-admits","tag-meant","tag-numbers","tag-phone","tag-twitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}