Twitter, which is in the process of being acquired by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has agreed to pay $150 million to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to settle allegations that it abused non-public information collected for security purposes to serve targeted ads.
In addition to the monetary penalty for "misrepresenting its privacy and security practices," the company has been banned from
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