While FTC settlements with the likes of Facebook, Google, Myspace and Path have all made news, what’s next is the task of living up to the agreements, and that means 20 years of privacy audits. The San Francisco Chronicle rounds up just what these audits entail, how companies like KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers go about conducting the audits, and why some privacy advocates say the audits aren’t nearly enough: "The real question is, will these companies stay out of the privacy hot water in the future," Kurt Opsahl, senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told the paper. "I'm not really sure these audits are going to solve that problem."
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