Twitter apologizes for sharing users’ location data

Twitter apologized Monday for inadvertently collecting and sharing the location data of users with a “trusted partner” of the company, adding that the issue had been fixed and they are “working hard to make sure it does not happen again.”

“You trust us to be careful with your data, and because of that, we want to be open with you when we make a mistake,” Twitter wrote in a statement. “We have discovered that we were inadvertently collecting and sharing iOS location data with one of our trusted partners in certain circumstances.”

Specifically, Twitter announced that it had unintentionally collected the location data of iOS users that had more than one account and had opted to use a location feature on one of these accounts. Twitter said in some cases, it may have collected the location information for an account not authorized for location features if the user was on the same device for both accounts.