Twitter Is Facing a Data Privacy Probe in Ireland

As Twitter (TWTR) prepares to release what will be its first full-quarter financial report under the European Union’s comprehensive privacy law known as the General Data Protection Regulation (or GDPR), it turns out the company is under investigation as to whether or not it has violated the law. Ireland’s data watchdog, the Irish Data Protection Commission, is currently investigating Twitter’s European corporate headquarters. Twitter’s GDPR probe in Ireland was triggered by a complaint from a UK privacy researcher who indicated to the Irish privacy watchdog that Twitter had refused to hand over data about him that he had requested.