Twitter ‘Inadvertently’ Collected User Location Data Without Proper Consent

Twitter “inadvertently” collected and shared user iOS location data with an advertising partner without user consent, the platform blogged Monday. If a user was operating more than one Twitter account on iOS, the platform might have accidentally collected location data for all accounts associated with the device, if the user opted into tracking on at least one account, the company said. The data was stored for a “short time” on the ad partners’ systems before deletion, the company said.