Twitter has implemented new policies to protect its users’ privacy. The news comes just one day after Twitter’s new CEO, Parag Agrawal, took over from Jack Dorsey.
Twitter’s amended rules prohibit users from publishing photographs and videos of other individuals without their permission on the microblogging platform. Public personalities will be exempt from these rules.
In an official statement, Twitter said that:
“Sharing images and videos are an important part of users’ experience on Twitter. People should have a choice in deciding whether or not their private media is shared publicly. To that end, the company has decided to expand the scope of its private information policy. The policy update will help curb the misuse of media to harass, intimidate, and reveal the identities of private individuals, which disproportionately impacts women, activists, dissidents, and members of minority communities.”
Twitter has also decided to allow users who aren’t celebrities to ask the business to remove photographs and videos that have been uploaded without their consent.
Twitter has already made it illegal for users to share people’s addresses, identification documents, contact information, financial account information, and other private information, such as biometric data and medical records, without their permission.
Threatening to publicly reveal someone’s private information, sharing knowledge that would allow anyone to hack someone’s private information, and asking for a money reward in exchange for posting or not posting someone’s private information were all prohibited by the company.
