Have you had an external audit or assessment of the people, processes and technologies involved?

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As part of a settlement with the FTC, Facebook agreed to submit to an external audit of its privacy policies and practices every two years for the next 20 years.

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Does Twitter undergo such an external audit?

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During that time companies wouldn't have to undergo the Sarbanes-Oxley law's redundant external audit of an internal audit of their business processes which of course comes on top of the internal and external financial audits.

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But investors in the NIR fund have not received an external 2008 annual audit, court documents say.

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In his statement Thursday, Ryley said Sky News had commissioned an internal audit of payment records, alongside the external review of e-mail records.

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There are additional risks for clients when the external auditor performs work in multiple global locations to support an audit.

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The independent external auditor is a licensed professional who works for a public accounting firm and performs an audit of the financial statements of a company, government, individual, or any other legal entity or organization.

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