A massive Twitter data breach last year, exposing more than five million phone numbers and email addresses, was worse than initially reported. We’ve been shown evidence that the same security ...

While trolling through the dark web this week, I found my Twitter account's data. A dark web site this month released a data set of 200 million Twitter profiles. That's where I found my account's data ...

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has issued Twitter with a fine of €450,000 (~$547,000) for failing to promptly declare and properly document a data breach under Europe’s General Data ...

Elon Musk’s desire to stir conspiratorial shit up by giving select outsiders aligned with his conservative agenda access to Twitter systems and data could land the world’s richest man in some serious ...

In a letter to Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, Twitter said the tech giant had violated a data agreement. By Kate Conger Ryan Mac and Cade Metz Twitter on Thursday sent a letter to Satya ...

After Twitter announced in February it would begin charging third parties to access its platform data, academic researchers warned that the vaguely worded plan could threaten important studies about ...

Twitter finally addressed reports that a dataset of email addresses linked to hundreds of millions of Twitter users was leaked and put up for sale online, saying that it found no evidence the data was ...

Police across the country will now have a harder time singling out individual Twitter users. Twitter announced today that it has cut off all geospatial intelligence data being sold to police ...

Federal regulators on Wednesday slapped Twitter with a $150 million fine for allegedly misleading users about how the social media company used their personal data. From May 2013 to September 2019, ...

An international group of researchers has developed an algorithmic tool that uses Twitter to automatically predict exactly where you live in a matter of minutes, with more than 90 percent accuracy. It ...

Twitter announced today that it has acquired Gnip, the Colorado-based startup that has long been one of the primary companies reselling data from the "Twitter firehose". Essentially the idea is that, ...

Twitter launched a new service on Wednesday called the Twitter Political Index, or Twindex. By applying highly tuned algorithms to Twitter's fire hose of data, the service offers a real-time look at ...