Twitter Apologises For Tagging India’s Region As China
November 20, 2020
5:38 am
Social media giant Twitter Inc has apologized to an Indian parliamentary panel for ceding the northern Himalayan region to China on Twitter’s geo-tagging Reuters says.
Twitter geo-tagging is currently showing a northern Himalayan as part of China but the company has apologised with a promise to make corrections by month-end, the panel’s chief said on Wednesday. Twitter’s chief privacy officer, Damien Kieran, sent an apology letter to the Joint Committee on the Personal Data Protection Bill after the company geo-tagged India’s northern territory of Ladakh as being in neighbouring China, the panel’s head Meenakashi Lekhi said.
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