Social media platforms are engaging in “vast surveillance” of people online and failing to protect children, according to a ...
The agency said the companies engaged in vast consumer surveillance while failing to provide adequate privacy controls or ...
The Federal Trade Commission released a report Thursday slamming social media platforms including Facebook's parent company, ...
FTC seeks clear information on how social media and streaming companies determine which specific ads and other content to ...
Consumers do not understand how much privacy they are giving up, largely to facilitate targeted advertising, the Federal ...
Popular social media platforms and video streaming services pose serious risks to user privacy, with children and teenagers ...
The Federal Trade Commission published a new report about the data collection policies of social media platforms and video ...
An FTC report has accused social media companies of vast user surveillance, inadequate data gathering practices, and ...
The report is in response to 6(b) orders issued in December 2020 to nine social media and video streaming sites.
Social media companies gather data through tracking technologies used in online advertising and buying information from data ...
The FTC ordered nine companies to provide information on their data collection practices. According to the report, through ...
The FTC's new report reveals how social media giants collect data, share it with third parties, and create detailed profiles ...