{"id":211242,"date":"2017-05-18T13:32:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T11:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=211242"},"modified":"2017-05-18T13:34:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T11:34:01","slug":"twitter-gives-users-more-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/211242-twitter-gives-users-more-control.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter gives users more control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/2017\/building-new-data-controls-and-updating-our-privacy-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Twitter has launched<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0a new set of tools to give its users more access to their information and more control over how it\u2019s used.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter has also updated its Privacy Policy to reflect the improvements.<\/p>\n<p>The most important updates which Twitter is rolling out include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Increased transparency:<\/strong>\u00a0Expanding Twitter Data to give users access to their Twitter information, including demographic and interest data.<\/li>\n<li><strong>New controls:<\/strong>\u00a0New Personalisation and Data settings that offer more granular control over how Twitter uses their subscribers\u2019 data.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Personalisation:<\/strong> When a user logs in, Twitter will associate their device with their account.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Web data:<\/strong> Twitter has expanded on how it uses and stores data from other websites that integrate Twitter content.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Data sharing:<\/strong> Twitter has updated how it shares non-personal, aggregated, and device-level data, including through some select partnership agreements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cPrivacy is built into our DNA as a company and it\u2019s something we take an active role in promoting and advocating for across the world,\u201d said Twitter.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/208474-twitter-to-show-all-day-live-sports-and-news.html\">Twitter to show all-day live sports and news<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has launched a new set of tools to give its users more access to their information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":144773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[405],"class_list":["post-211242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211284,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211242\/revisions\/211284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}