The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday approved a final settlement with fourteen companies that allegedly breached the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor treaty, which requires U.S. companies to adhere to the EU's privacy laws in their storage of EU customer data. As a result of the settlements, the companies -- including BitTorrent, DataMotion, Level 3 Communications, Apperian and others -- must not misrepresent themselves if they say they are complying with government-sponsored privacy or data security programs or "any other self-regulatory or standard-setting organization." The FTC filed its original complaint in January.