{"id":91698,"date":"2017-05-23T14:10:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T14:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=91698"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:52:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:52:21","slug":"if-you-value-your-privacy-change-these-twitter-settings-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/if-you-value-your-privacy-change-these-twitter-settings-now\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Value Your Privacy Change These Twitter Settings Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re a Twitter user you\u2019ll have no doubt seen that they\u2019ve recently updated their privacy policy.<\/strong> The updated privacy policy is designed to better connect you to the types of content you want to see. Now this is fine if you don\u2019t mind your data being shared with advertisers but if you\u2019re not too comfortable with huge corporations sharing your personal information with each other you\u2019d better read on.<\/p>\n

\"Twitter<\/p>\n

The changes will take effect on June 18th<\/sup> and you\u2019ll automatically be opted in so you\u2019ll have to take proactive action to stop your data being shared. Read on\u2026<\/p>\n

There are 3 Big Changes taking place:<\/h2>\n

The 1st<\/sup> Big Change<\/strong> is that your web data will be stored for longer.<\/strong> At the moment your data is stored for 10 days but come June 18th<\/sup> Twitter will store all the information it collects using cookies for 30 days.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 2nd<\/sup> Big Change<\/strong> is that Twitter is going to start ramping up how it shares your data:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“We’ve updated how we share non-personal, aggregated and device-level data, including through some select partnership agreements that allow the data to be linked to your name, email, or other personal information — but only when you give your consent to those partners.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The 3rd<\/sup> Big Change<\/strong> is that Twitter no longer supports Do Not Track.<\/strong> Due to what Twitter calls an industry-standard approach it will no longer enable you to prevent advertisers from tracking your browsing history.<\/p>\n

What can you do about it?<\/h2>\n
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It might be worth checking both the app and the webpage Twitter settings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fortunately, Twitter are giving users greater control over their privacy settings<\/strong> so you\u2019ll be able to opt out of all these changes if you wish. To do so, using either the app or Twitter website you\u2019ll want to go to Settings and Privacy then click Privacy and safety and go to the Personalization and data menu.<\/strong> Here you\u2019ll be able to disable or enable all of the personalization settings or simply disable those you like whilst leaving others enabled.<\/p>\n

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Via – cnet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re a Twitter user you\u2019ll have no doubt seen that they\u2019ve recently updated their privacy policy. The updated privacy policy is designed to better connect you to the types of content you want to see. Now this is fine if you don\u2019t mind your data being shared with advertisers but if you\u2019re not too … Continue reading “If You Value Your Privacy Change These Twitter Settings Now”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9073,"featured_media":91700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2358],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-91698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiontwitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328779,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91698\/revisions\/328779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91698"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=91698"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=91698"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=91698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}