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Fortune<\/strong><\/a>
October 13, 2018<\/p>\n

Twitter is being investigated by Irish privacy authorities over its refusal to give a user information about how it tracks him when he clicks on links in tweets.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When Twitter (TWTR, +3.67%)<\/a> users put links into tweets, the service applies its own link-shortening service, t.co, to them. Twitter says<\/a> this allows the platform to measure how many times a link has been clicked, and helps it to fight the spread of malware through dodgy links.<\/p>\n

However, privacy researcher Michael Veale, who works at University College London, suspects that Twitter gets more information when people click on t.co links, and that it might use them to track those people as they surf the web, by leaving cookies in their browsers.<\/p>\n

As is his right under the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)<\/a>\u2014the sweeping set of privacy rules that came into effect across the EU in May\u2014Veale asked Twitter to give him all the personal data it holds on him.<\/p>\n

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This article was posted: Saturday, October 13, 2018 at 3:38 am<\/p>\n

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