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Twitter has agreed to pay a $150 million to the Federal Trade Commission for what its chief privacy officer Damien Kieran called “a privacy incident” when email addresses and phone numbers users provided for account security purposes “may have been inadvertently used for advertising.”

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThe Federal Trade Commission levied a $150 million fine on Twitter, alleging that the social network profited by allowing advertisers to use private data to target specific users.According to the agency, Twitter violated a 2011 FTC order that “explicitly prohibited” the company from misrepresenting its privacy and security practices. In addition to the $150 million fine, Twitter is banned from “profiting from its deceptively collected data,” the FTC said.In August 2020, Twitter disclosed that it expected to face an FTC fine of $150 million to $250 million related to the allegations.In a blog post, Twitter chief privacy officer Damien Kieran wrote, “Keeping data secure and respecting privacy is something we take extremely seriously, and we have cooperated with the FTC every step of the way.