In the next few days, the millions of people worldwide who have Twitter accounts will likely receive an email explaining the company's new privacy policy, which have been made to increase users' protection.
Twitter began sending out emails on Sunday to its members, alerting them to changes to the company's privacy policy in plain language designed to be easy to understand, according to a report from
PC World. The changes include Twitter's new support for the Do Not Track feature in some Web browsers, and a clearer disclosure about what data the company collects on users.
Twitter will now share data that users give it permission to share, as well as information that's neither private nor personal, the report said. Further, it will also do so to protect a user, such as to fight fraud or help protect their systems, and will also comply with requests from law enforcement agencies.
Eduard Goodman, chief privacy officer for
Identity Theft 911, has a blog about the ways in which consumers can protect their personal information when using social networks.
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