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Twitter faces Brazil data-protection probe over personal data breach

By Ana Paula Candil
  • 13 Jan 2023 20:33
  • 13 Jan 2023 20:33
Twitter is under scrutiny by the Brazilian data protection authority for a data breach relating to millions of users, the agency told MLex.
The social media platform has filed a “security incident" report on the breach with the National Data Protection Authority, or ANPD. The agency didn’t disclose when the

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Ana Paula Candil

Senior Correspondent, Latin America


Ana Paula joined MLex in Brazil in 2014 writing about antitrust investigations and merger reviews. Prior to that, she worked for several trade publications and in TV. She lived in Washington DC, where she worked for Al Jazeera English in 2010. She studied journalism and holds a postgraduate diploma in International Business Management from the George Brown College in Toronto and a Master of Business Administration diploma in government relations from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV).

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