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Twitter to pay $150M to settle federal suit over data collection practices

By Nihal Krishan
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Twitter to pay $150M to settle federal suit over data collection practices

The federal government announced Wednesday that Twitter has agreed to pay $150 million in civil penalties and change its data privacy measures after the platform profited off of deceptively collecting user data for six years.

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