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Twitter faces FTC probe, likely fine over use of phone numbers for ads:
Twitter is facing a Federal Trade Commission probe and believes it will likely owe a fine of up to $250 million after being caught using phone numbers intended for two-factor authentication for advertising purposes.
The company received a draft complaint from the FTC on July 28, it disclosed in its regular quarterly filing with the Securities and Exchange commission. The complaint alleges that Twitter is in violation of its 2011 settlement with the FTC over the company's "failure to safeguard personal information."
[...] In October 2019, however, Twitter admitted that phone numbers and email addresses users provided it with for the purpose of securing their accounts were also used "inadvertently" for advertising purposes between 2013 and 2019.
In the filing, Twitter estimates the "range of probable loss" it faces in the probe is between $150 million and $250 million, although it adds that "the matter remains unresolved, and there can be no assurance as to the timing or the terms of any final outcome."
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday August 05 2020, @02:41PM
So is this part of why we get so many robocalls?
(But I've never interacted with Twitter ever. I certainly have not given them my phone number.)
If we (as a species) could somehow manage to morally justify nuking profitable robocalls, then we might find the moral courage to view spam as evil.
Maybe those who cannot see the evil are not of the same species.
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