Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years
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Re: Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years
#2This is the actual source: https://help.twitter.com/en/protected-tweets-android.
Re: Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years
#3At this point it should probably be illegal to call something "private" when there is no guarantee of protections.
Re: Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years
#4Specific to Twitter for Android (not web or iOS device clients)
Re: Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years
#5At this point it should probably be illegal to call something "private" when there is no guarantee of protections.
Seems to have been a bug where some settings were reset accidentally.
Of course this shouldn't happen, but I can see how something like this could easily slip through.
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#6Shouldn't this involve lots of penalties? This has the potential to change/ruin lives drastically. A prudent consumer never trusts what the companies say nowadays. However, that shouldn't absolve the company of falsely claiming private product when it isn't so.
Re: Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years
#7At this point it should probably be illegal to call something "private" when there is no guarantee of protections.
twitter uses the word "protected", only the article's author ever used the word "private".
Re: Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years
#8Shouldn't this involve lots of penalties? This has the potential to change/ruin lives drastically. A prudent consumer never trusts what the companies say nowadays. However, that shouldn't absolve the company of falsely claiming private product when it isn't so.
A prudent consumer also doesn't send 'live-destroying' messages on a public, hosted messaging platform, regardless of a private setting...
Note that this isn't even about DMs.
Re: Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years
#9Just my own opinion, but at this point I think it's prudent to assume that pretty much anything you send out into the digital network world is public. If it's not something you would want the world knowing you said, don't put it out there. Security breaches happen. Bugs happen. Sometimes law enforcement just comes by and says, "Give me everything that user X has ever done." In short, sh!t happens.
"Everything I do on the net can be authoritatively attributed to me personally."
That's the thought we should all have in our heads before we send any post, or send any text, or send any email, or send any photo, or etc etc etc. We shouldn't rely on some company, that's using us to make money, to protect our privacy.
Re: Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years
#10Just my own opinion, but at this point I think it's prudent to assume that pretty much anything you send out into the digital network world is public. If it's not something you would want the world knowing you said, don't put it out there. Security breaches happen. Bugs happen. Sometimes law enforcement just comes by and says, "Give me everything that user X has ever done." In short, sh!t happens. "Everything I do on…
Totally agree.
But where does that leave us with “The Cloud”?