Data Protection and Twitter – Terence Eden’s Blog https://shkspr.mobi/blog Regular nonsense about tech and its effects 🙃 Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:08:25 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://shkspr.mobi/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/cropped-avatar-32x32.jpeg Data Protection and Twitter – Terence Eden’s Blog https://shkspr.mobi/blog 32 32 <![CDATA[Data Protection and Twitter]]> https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/02/data-protection-and-twitter/ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/02/data-protection-and-twitter/#respond Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:54:22 +0000 http://shkspr.mobi/blog/?p=5341 As Twitter now have a UK office, I thought I would see what data they hold about me. Thanks to the UK's Data Protection act, it's really simple to request the information.

I wasn't expecting a whole CD's worth of information - like Facebook provides users - but what I did get surprised me.

Twitter UK has no control or responsibility over the user information in the Twitter service and cannot respond to these sorts of requests.

So, I was rather surprised to see Privacy International telling people to contact Twitter's UK office.

I'm not sure whether PI are mistaken, or Twitter UK are.

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