JAKARTA – The Twitter social media network is in trouble. The company is rumored to be fined US $ 250 million (US) or the equivalent of Rp3.6 trillion by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
Quoting CNN International, Tuesday 4 August, the fine was payable for violating Twitter’s 2011 agreement with the FTC, to no longer mislead consumers about how to protect their personal information.
Reports say that since 2013 and 2019, Twitter used the phone numbers and email addresses of users which initially served as protection for their accounts, but it turned out that these were actually used as advertising targets by the social media.
Twitter exposed the practice around October and argued that it was done “accidentally” and as “a mistake.”
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The FTC clearly believes that Twitter is misleading consumers by not disclosing that user data may have been used in this way. Subsequently, on July 28, the FTC posted a series of Twitter error data describing alleged treaty violations in 2011.
The microblogging social network is expected to be fined between US $ 150 million and US $ 250 million.
“The problem is still not resolved, and there is no guarantee as to the timing or conditions of the final result,” Twitter said in its 10-Q submission with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
However, the FTC did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The agency has previously received fine payments of about US $ 5 billion with Facebook. The fine is claimed to be the largest in the history of the commission for user data breaches.
Previously known, this Twitter allegation came a few days after the company’s latest earnings report, in which it reported revenue of 683 million US dollars for the second quarter of 2020. Two weeks ago, Twitter also recently faced a massive attack that harmed the world’s celebrity Twitter account. namely Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos.
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