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| Twitter may face European Union sanctions for the first time in days |
After most European Union data watchers have agreed to support the draft regulation previously put forward by the Irish Data Protection Commission, the EU Data Protection Authority will take an executive decision against the company's Twitter piracy, which was published in 2019.
Early last year, Twitter discovered a bug in the "Protect Your Tweets" feature. At the time, it said: Some Android users have turned the feature on to keep their Tweets private and may have corrupted their data since 2014.
Meanwhile, the European Union's new data protection regime came into effect in May 2018, which means that data breaches in 2014-2019 will be covered by the European Union's general data protection regulation. data.
The Irish Data Protection Commission is the main body overseeing the Twitter case. However, due to the cross-border nature of their work, all European Union data protection authorities are interested and able to raise relevant logical objections. For the project. Over the summer, an objection was filed against the Irish Data Protection Commission's draft decision, which led to the initiation of dispute resolution procedures for cross-border cases under the GDPR.
The European Commission for Data Protection is the agency responsible for coordinating regulatory activities across the European Union. Today it said it has adopted Rule 65 I - the EU data trustee dispute settlement mechanism. This means that at least two-thirds of data protection authorities in the European Union support the solution.
The European Commission for Data Protection said in a statement: “On 9 November 2020, the European Commission for Data Protection has taken a binding decision and will formally notify the Irish regulators soon.”
The committee also said: "The Irish regulator must make its final decision based on the decision of the European Data Protection Committee. The decision is sent directly to the person responsible for the processing immediately and no later than when the European Data Protection Commission is notified of the decision. One month after the committee."
Details of the penalties that Twitter may impose (such as fines) have not been confirmed. But now you can see the end of the process.