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This April 26, 2017, file photo shows the Twitter app on a
smartphone in Philadelphia.
Associated Press
Twitter finds software

privacy bug affecting

direct messages EU Consumer Commissioner Vera Jourova talks to journalists during a news conference at the
European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018.
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter cases have directed mes-
says it found a software sages to the wrong devel- EU getting ‘impatient’ with Facebook
bug that may have sent oper. The company discov-
some private messages to ered and fixed the flaw on over consumer data use
the wrong people. Sept. 10.
But the company says the Twitter says less than 1 per-
problem specifically in- cent of its 335 million users KELVIN CHAN and RAF give users more informa- 380 million European users.
volved direct messages or were affected, and notes CASERT tion about how their data is “We want Facebook to be
protected tweets sent to that it hasn’t seen evidence Associated Press used and how it works with absolutely clear to its users
businesses and other ac- that any actual messages BRUSSELS (AP) — The Eu- third party makers of apps, about how their service op-
counts overseen by soft- were misdelivered. ropean Union’s consumer games and quizzes. erates and makes money,”
ware developers. Twitter says it has notified protection chief said Thurs- “If we do not see the prog- she said.
The issue, which started in anyone who was affected day she’s growing impa- ress the sanctions will have The company said it “will
May 2017, could in some by the bug.q tient with Facebook’s ef- to come,” she said. She continue our close coop-
forts to improve transpar- didn’t specify punishment, eration to understand any
ency with users about their saying they would be ap- further concerns and make
PayPal is the latest platform to data, warning it could face plied by individual coun- appropriate updates.”
tries. “I was quite clear we Jourova also said U.S.-
sanctions for not comply-
ditch Alex Jones, Infowars ing. Consumer Commis- cannot negotiate forever, based property rental site
Airbnb has agreed to clar-
EU
we just want to see the re-
sioner Vera Jourova turned sult.” ify its pricing system in re-
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — cut ties with Infowars after up the pressure on the so- The EU has been pressing sponse to complaints that
You won’t be able use a review found instances cial media giant, saying the U.S. tech company to it could mislead consumers.
PayPal anymore to buy of it promoting “hate and she wants the company look at what changes it Airbnb has promised to
fluoride-free toothpaste or discriminatory intolerance to update its terms of ser- needs to make to better be fully transparent by ei-
a bottle of The Real Red against certain communi- vice and expects to see its protect consumers and this ther including extra fees in
Pill Plus from right-wing ties and religions.” proposed changes by mid- year Facebook has had to the total price for a book-
conspiracy promulgator Infowars said the move is a October so they can take adapt to new EU data pro- ing quoted on its website
Alex Jones. The digital pay- ploy aimed at sabotaging effect in December. tection rules. The concerns or notifying users that they
ments company is the lat- the site just weeks before “I will not hide that I am be- took on greater urgency might apply, she said.
est platform to ditch Jones the midterm elections. coming rather impatient after the Cambridge Ana- The company is complying
and his Infowars site, which Earlier this month, Twit- because we have been in lytica data privacy scandal with EU demands spurred
along with conspiracy the- ter banned Jones and In- dialogue with Facebook al- erupted, in which data on by concerns that consum-
ories peddles “I Stand With fowars. Facebook has also most two years and I really 87 million Facebook users ers could be confused by
Trump” T-shirts, Wake Up banned Infowars, while want to see, not the prog- was allegedly improperly its complicated pricing
America coffee, dietary other tech companies, in- ress — it’s not enough for harvested. structure, which could add
supplements and survival cluding YouTube, Apple me — but I want to see the Jourova said she hopes unexpected costs such as
food. and Spotify, have limited results,” Jourova said. Facebook will take more cleaning charges at the
PayPal said Friday that it Jones.q The EU wants Facebook to responsibility for its nearly end of a holiday.q