Twitter admits to revealing user's location data without their permission

-

As the debate over the right to privacy rages on, a new report claims that Twitter is revealing specific locations details included with some of its users' tweets without his/her consent. And what is more surprising is that the social media giant -- Twitter accepts the same and said that this happened because of a bug, which is now being fixed.
Several Twitter users last week complained about the issue. They said that the location that was added to their tweets weren't their current ones. Instead, they said, the location that Twitter added to their tweets was either a place they have visited recently or searched for on Twitter. The issue went on to become really serious and that's when Twitter decided to look into the matter and after inspection, the social media giant did acknowledge the issue and fixed it.
It was a bug, revealed Twitter. The micro-blogging site on Friday took to Twitter Support account to post, "We've discovered an issue for a small percentage of people who recently had location-sharing on, Tweeted from https://twitter.com, and tapped to add an emoji or GIF. In certain instances, a city-level location was also included in the Tweet." But, the problem has apparently been resolved now.
Twitter now says that it has removed the locations from tweets that were affected by the bug and has also reached out to such accounts users via email (if it's provided to them). This report comes from Inverse.com.
A similar incident happened last week when from Android smartphones even when the location services were turned off and there was no SIM card on the device. This was first reported by Quartz. However, after all the accuses, Google said that the location information was never used or stored and that they are now planning to put an end to this practice by the end of this month. Commenting on the incident, a Google spokesperson said -- "In January of this year, we began looking into using Cell ID codes as an additional signal to further improve the speed and performance of message delivery. However, we never incorporated Cell ID into our network sync system, so that data was immediately discarded, and we updated it to no longer request Cell ID."
Well, as of now, Google has been summoned by regulators in South Korea where the search giant is being questioned about the data collection issue without the user's consent.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

New UGC rules permit third-party agencies to accredit higher education institutes

-
Image
Agencies other than the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) and the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) will soon be able to evaluate higher education institutions as the University Grants Commission (UGC) has passed a new regulation permitting their entry. The new rules, which were approved by the Commission in a meeting held this month, enables UGC to grant licences to third-party agencies for accreditation of educational institutes. The regulation now awaits HRD Ministry’s nod. Among the new accreditation bodies will be one spearheaded by the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), sources told The Indian Express. The premier engineering schools, in a meeting of IIT directors held in Chennai last month, have agreed to set up a Section 8 company, which will apply for a licence under the new UGC regulation. The decision was taken at the behest of the Union government, which feels that the involvement of IITs will lend prestige to the accreditation process. The id
Read more

Valla Sadhya

-
Image
Valla Sadhya Sadya items ready to be served, clockwise from top: paayasam, bittergourd thoran, aviyal, kaalan, lime pickle, sambar; buttermilk with boiled rice in the center. Valla Sadya is a celebration in the Hindu temple at Aranmula, Kerala, India. During the festival the village conducts a snake boat race in the Pampa River, and there is a feast at the temple. The Valla Sadhya is conducted on Ashtamirohoni day.  During Valla Sadhya, Lord Krishna, the main deity worshipped in the temple, will come to take the offerings from people. The legend is that in a Valla Sadya all dishes asked for must be given to the people in order to please the lord.
Read more

Bangladesh: Govt takes up Ashrayan-3 project to shelter Rohingya refugees

-
In addition to the temporarily shelter of Rohingya refugees, the cost of construction of necessary infrastructure for the island will be BDT 2,312 crores. The project will be implemented by the Bangladesh Navy under the Prime Minister's Office of the government's priority list. Bangladesh government has taken a project called 'Ashrayan-3' for temporary housing of one lakh Rohingya people. This project will be implemented in Bhasanchar of Hatiya upazila in Noakhali district. Although Bangladesh has more than 1 million Rohingya refugees in which, more than 6,25,000 Rohingyas have fled violence in Myanmar to seek refuge in Cox's Bazar of Bangladesh, since August 25. In addition to the temporarily shelter of Rohingya refugees, the cost of construction of necessary infrastructure for the island will be BDT 2,312 crores. The project will be implemented by the Bangladesh Navy under the Prime Minister's Office of the government's priority list.
Read more