In expectation of a new data protection regulation in the EU, Twitter has announced it will process all account information of non-U.S. users at the Twitter International Company in Ireland, The Irish Times reports. Ireland’s Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) will assume jurisdiction over 77 percent of Twitter users or approximately 300 million accounts. The DPC said it will “commence an engagement with (Twitter) in relation to privacy matters as we do with other entities who have declared their Irish entity as being responsible for privacy.” TRUSTe Senior Consultant Debra Farber, CIPP/US, CIPP/G, CIPM, CIPT, said, “This is almost a peace offering to Europe … You don’t have to fear what we’re doing because we are not going to transfer data from the EU to the U.S. anymore.”
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