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Twitter bug accidentally shared location data of some iOS users

Tuesday, May 14, 2019 by Piyush Suthar | Comments

Home News Tech Twitter bug accidentally shared location data of some iOS users

Twitter says it has fixed a bug that resulted in a user’s approximate location information being shared with an unnamed Twitter partner. “We have discovered that we were inadvertently collecting and sharing iOS location data with one of our trusted partners in certain circumstances,” the company said. According to the blog post, the bug only affected iOS users of its Twitter app who had a second account on their phones. So if users had allowed Twitter to access precise location data on one account, the setting would automatically be applied to the other account(s), even when they did not opt in to…

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