This blog entry links to a piece written for Forbes by Hogan Lovells privacy practice leader Chris Wolf in which he contrasts the relatively light penalty imposed upon Dharun Ravi, the Rutgers student convicted of invasion of privacy and bias intimidation, with the remedies imposed by the Federal Trade Commission for violations of Section 5 of the FTC Act.
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FTC Announces Settlement with Facebook
The Federal Trade Commission this afternoon announced a proposed consent decree with the prominent social network Facebook, settling allegations that Facebook violated Section 5 of the FTC Act by failing to live up to representations made to consumers regarding its privacy practices. Among other remedial measures, the FTC required Facebook to obtain independent privacy compliance audits for the next 20 years. Along with the FTC’s recent consent decrees with Google and Twitter, the FTC now effectively has regulatory oversight over the privacy and data security practices of the three most prominent social networking companies in the United States.