I read an article tonight from frickenate entitled ‘Twitter Would Sell Database to Highest Bidder‘. He noticed a few alarming statements within Twitter’s Privacy Policy. Including :

Twitter may sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all of its assets, including your personally identifiable information, in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets or in the event of bankruptcy. You will have the opportunity to opt out of any such transfer if the new entity’s planned processing of your information differs materially from that set forth in this Privacy Policy.

and

Twitter may sell… all of its assets, including your personally identifiable information, in connection with a… sale of assets or in the event of bankruptcy.

As frickenate rightly points out, this information not only includes names and email addresses, it also includes mobile phone numbers. Twitter has still not been bought over by a large company like Google or Microsoft.

If a business model cannot be found, would the Twitter founders simply sell the site, and users information, to the highest bidder? It certainly is food for thought

Link : Twitter Would Sell Database to Highest Bidder via @frickenate