{"id":4109,"date":"2022-10-28T05:44:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T05:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2022\/10\/28\/a-new-chief-twit-and-a-big-twitter-privacy-issue\/"},"modified":"2022-10-28T05:44:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T05:44:20","slug":"a-new-chief-twit-and-a-big-twitter-privacy-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2022\/10\/28\/a-new-chief-twit-and-a-big-twitter-privacy-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"A new Chief Twit – and a big Twitter privacy issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you haven’t heard, there’s a new Chief Twit. \u00a0His other company is known for racial abuse of Black workers<\/a> and software bugs<\/a>, \u00a0and as soon has he took over he fired Vijaya Gadde, the widely-respected head of Trust & Safety. \u00a0What could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n

If you care about digital privacy and you\u2019re a Twitter user, this may not be great news. Over the years, Twitter has been dogged by privacy and security issues, while also dragging its feet on implementing possible solutions. The result is that conceivably everything you\u2019ve ever done or said on Twitter, public or private \u2014 including your direct messages \u2014 may soon belong to one of the richest people in the world, a man known for being unpredictable, childish, and even vengeful. It\u2019ll also be owned by a man who reportedly plans<\/a> to get rid of 75 percent of its staff, which could compromise Twitter\u2019s security even more. Oops!<\/p>\n

\u2013 Sara Morrison in What happens to your Twitter data when Elon takes over<\/a> on Vox,<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oops indeed. \u00a0So it’s not surprising that a lot of people want to delete their Twitter data. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, you can’t. <\/p>\n

Back in 2019, Zack Whittaker reported that Twitter doesn\u2019t actually delete your direct messages when you try to delete them<\/a>. \u00a0And even deleting your account won’t help. \u00a0As Morrison reports<\/p>\n

The company told Recode it had \u201cnothing to add here at this time\u201d when asked how long it kept user data or how long it would take for a user\u2019s data to be completely deleted from Twitter \u2014 if ever \u2014 should that user delete their account.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bummer.<\/p>\n

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Image credit: Alpha Stock Images<\/a>, originally by Nick Youngson<\/a> via Picpedia<\/a>, licensed under Creative Commons 3 – CC BY-SA 3.0<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you haven’t heard, there’s a new Chief Twit. \u00a0His other company is known for racial abuse of Black workers and software bugs, \u00a0and as soon has he took over he fired Vijaya Gadde, the widely-respected head of Trust & Safety. \u00a0What could possibly go wrong? If you care about digital privacy and you\u2019re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}