The announcement on June 24 that social networking phenomenon Twitter has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it had engaged in inadequate privacy and information security practices illustrates some simple mistakes that companies can make.
If the consent decree is approved, Twitter will have to live with the oversight that accompanies an FTC consent decree for 20 years (or more than four times the length of time that the company has existed).
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