Twitter stated that the Federal Trade Commission could quickly fine it as much as $250 million for improper use of customers’ phone numbers and e mail addresses. The potential fines would come for violations of Twitter’s 2011 agreement with the FTC to not mislead customers about the way it protects their private info.

Between 2013 and 2019, Twitter used telephone numbers and e mail addresses offered “for security and safety functions” to assist goal advertisements. Twitter disclosed the practice again in October, saying that it was performed “inadvertently” and referred to as it “an error.” The FTC evidently believes that Twitter misled customers by not disclosing that their knowledge could have been used on this manner.

Twitter says that the fee despatched a draft criticism on July 28th describing alleged violations of the 2011 settlement. Twitter estimates that it might be fined wherever from $150 million to $250 million, and it’s setting apart $150 million in expectation of a fine. “The matter stays unresolved, and there could be no assurance as to the timing or the phrases of any ultimate end result,” Twitter writes in its 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

A spokesperson for Twitter says the corporate “included an estimated vary for settlement” within the 10-Q filed at the moment as a result of the criticism was obtained after its quarterly outcomes have been filed on July 23rd.