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 ...

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 ...

DC. (Photo by Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images) The Staff Report In A Nutshell On September 19, 2024, the ...

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 ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says that many popular social media websites and streaming services are engaged in ...

Social media apps are surveilling children and teenagers, and using the data gathered to earn billions of dollars every year.

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

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 ...

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 ...