Twitter To Establish Information Security Program

An anonymous reader writes "Twitter has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers and put their privacy at risk by failing to safeguard their personal information, marking the 30th case the FTC has brought targeting faulty data security, and the agency's first such case against a social networking service. Under the terms of the settlement, Twitter will be barred for 20 years from misleading consumers about the extent to which it maintains and protects the security, privacy, and confidentiality of nonpublic consumer information, including the measures it takes to prevent authorized access to information and honor the privacy choices made by consumers."

WTF?

[Anonymous Coward]

Under the terms of the settlement, Twitter will be barred for 20 years from misleading consumers about the extent to which it maintains and protects the security, privacy, and confidentiality of nonpublic consumer information

Well, gee, I'm glad they'll be able to resume misleading consumers in 2030.

Re:The hell?

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Corporations have feelings and a whole crop of shareholders at home, needing to be fed. It would be inhumane to punish them as harshly as those degenerate potheads and copyright infringers.

Re:FACEBOOK

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

I can only assume that Facebook will be effectively immune from prosecution for anything short of building its own nuclear arsenal, just as soon as the old judges and politicians die off, and are replaced by ones whose law school years are documented on Zuckerberg's giant voyeurism datastore...

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Re:Barred for 20 years?

[luckymutt]

We're talking about Twitter...a 20 years barring is permanent.
Hell, in half that time no one will be admitting that they were a "Twit."
Kinda like how it is now with Friendster.

Privacy at risk

[Capt_Idle]

Dang, i should have known. The signs were there. My co-workers often knew word-by-word what i published on twitter.

Re:Barred for 20 years?

[twoshortplanks]

I have no idea what Jennifer Aniston looks like!

She's got a certain flair.