The Federal Trade Commission said in a report that major social media companies and video streaming services engaged in vast consumer surveillance while failing to provide adequate privacy ...

Social media companies collect, share and process vast troves of information about their users while offering little transparency or control, the FTC said.

A $8 billion class action investors’ lawsuit against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and company leaders — current and former — ...

Top social media and video streaming companies are facing new scrutiny from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which released a report Thursday morning accusing the platforms of vastly violating ...

The Federal Trade Commission said social media and streaming companies including YouTube, Amazon and Facebook fail to adequately protect consumer privacy.

The FTC just published results of a sweeping study of social media sites that has been going on for four years. The organization said that many social media sites and streaming services engage in ...

FTC seeks clear information on how social media and streaming companies determine which specific ads and other content to show individuals.

'The big danger is the loss of privacy, right? They certainly know what kind of things we are doing on the web,' said assistant professor Carlos Rubio-Medrano.

Social media companies collect, share and process vast troves of information about their users while offering little transparency or control, including over how it is used by systems incorporating ...

(Reuters) -Social media companies collect, share and process vast troves of information about their users while offering little transparency or control, including over how it is used by systems ...