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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

(Reuters) -Social media companies ... transparency or control, including over how it is used by systems incorporating artificial intelligence, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said in a report ...

"I think its a little creepy, and an invasion of privacy, but what can I do?" said A&M-CC student Rylee Evers. "I need to be on my social media." The FTC stated the social media and video ...

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 ...

The Federal Trade Commission said in a report that major social media companies and video ... while failing to provide adequate privacy controls or safeguards for children. The consumer-protection ...