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Protecting privacy at Twitter

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Del Harvey |

TED@BCG San Francisco

• October 2013

Twitter's Head of Safety, Del Harvey, shares what she's learned about protecting users' privacy on a platform where activity grows by the billions every two days. Through her funny and insightful anecdotes, she paints a picture of what it's like to oversee a community where a one-in-a-million chance is pretty good odds.

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Twitter's Head of Safety, Del Harvey, shares what she's learned about protecting users' privacy on a platform where activity grows by the billions every two days. Through her funny and insightful anecdotes, she paints a picture of what it's like to oversee a community where a one-in-a-million chance is pretty good odds.

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Del Harvey works to define policy and to ensure user safety and security in the challenging realm of modern social media.

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