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FTC Accepts Final Settlement with Twitter for Failure to Safeguard Personal Information

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 11, 2011.  The Federal Trade Commission has finalized a proposed settlement that it announced in June 2010with social networking site Twitter, which resolved charges that Twitter deceived consumers and put their privacy at risk by failing to safeguard their personal information. The FTC alleged that serious lapses in the company’s data security allowed hackers to obtain unauthorized administrative control of Twitter, including both access to non-public user information and tweets that consumers…

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