Twitter因涉嫌滥用用户数据被FTC调查，可能导致损失高达250M美元

根据Twitter周一的一份监管文件，美国联邦贸易委员会（FTC）正在对该公司进行调查，原因是该公司涉嫌使用用户上传的电话号码来进行针对人群的广告宣传——这可能违反了2011年的一项法令。在2011年的和解法令中，Twitter曾同意会更好地保护个人数据。Twitter表示，现在的这项调查导致的"可能损失 "在150M至250M美元之间。FTC近年来一直在对大型科技平台的数据失误进行罚款，包括最近对Facebook公司创纪录的50亿美元罚款，以及对YouTube涉嫌收集儿童数据一案进行1.7亿美元的罚款。

Twitter Inc. is being investigated by the Federal Trade Commission for alleged privacy violations, another setback for a company that has struggled in recent years to protect private user data and account security. The FTC is probing the company for using phone numbers uploaded for security purposes to target people with advertising -- a potential violation of a 2011 consent decree in which Twitter agreed to better protect personal data, the company said Monday in a regulatory filing. The probe may lead to a “probable loss” of $150 million to $250 million, the San Francisco-based company said. The FTC has been fining big tech platforms in recent years for data lapses, including the recent record $5 billion fine against Facebook Inc. and a settlement with Google’s YouTube over alleged collection of children’s data that included a $170 million fine.  source

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