The agency said the companies engaged in vast consumer surveillance while failing to provide adequate privacy controls or ...

Social media companies gather data through tracking technologies used in online advertising and buying information from data ...

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

On September 19, 2024, the FTC released a Staff Report on the data collection and data use practices of large social media ...

An FTC Staff Report that is highly critical of streaming media company consumer data use practices ignores economic benefits ...

Social media companies ... little transparency or control, including over how it is used by systems incorporating artificial intelligence, the Federal Trade Commission said in a report released ...

A recent report from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) highlights widespread surveillance practices by major social media ...

They're doing very little to protect the young ones from harmful content and are pushing back against legislation.

The US trade regulator complains that social media and streaming portals are spying on their users on a large scale and ...

according to findings released Thursday by the Federal Trade Commission. The agency—which in December 2020 issued orders to nine companies that own the world’s biggest social-media and video ...

Companies such as Amazon, Meta and X Corp. employed vast consumer surveillance strategies to monetize user data without providing adequate privacy controls, including for children, according to ...