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

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

Social media companies collect, share and process vast troves of information about their users while offering little ...

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

The US Federal Trade Commission has urged social media companies to limit third party data sharing after a report show a lack ...

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

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

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

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...