A Dutch foundation is planning to take legal action against social media platform Twitter for illegally collecting and trading in personal details gathered via free apps such as Duolingo and Wordfeud as well as dating apps and weather forecaster Buienradar. Twitter owned advertising platform MoPub between 2013 and January 2022 and that is where the problem lies, the SDBN foundation says. It estimates 11 million people’s information may have been illegally gathered and sold. Between 2013 and 2021, MoPub had access to information gleaned via 30,000 free apps on smartphones and tablets, the foundation says. In essence, the foundation says, consumers ‘paid with their privacy’ without giving permission.The foundation is demanding compensation on behalf of the apps’ users and if Twitter refuses to pay, the foundation will start a legal case against the company.
Source: Dutch foundation launches mass privacy claim against Twitter – DutchNews.nl
Also Shazam was busy with this – that’s an Apple company. It’s pretty disturbing that this kind of news isn’t a surprise at all any more.
But who is SDBN to collect for Dutch people? I don’t recall them starting up a class action for people to subscribe to and I doubt they will be dividing the money out to the Dutch people either.
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