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Privacy breach: Twitter admits a bug affected some users recently

Posted on November 27, 2017 by pogowasright.org

Oyibo writes:

Twitter has admitted a privacy breach must have happened to some of its users after specific locations included with some users’ tweets were revealed without their permission last week due to a “bug”.

“We’ve discovered an issue for a small percentage of people who recently had location-sharing on, Tweeted from Twitter.com, and tapped to add an emoji or GIF. In certain instances, a city-level location was also included in the Tweet,” the micro-blogging giant said with a tweet.

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