The agency said the companies engaged in vast consumer surveillance while failing to provide adequate privacy controls or safeguards for children. Findings are based on responses to 2020 orders to ...

On September 19, 2024, the FTC released a Staff Report on the data collection and data use practices of large social media and video streaming service (SMVSS) platforms.

FTC report shows "staggering" amount of personal data collected on social media sites 02:21. Large social media companies and streaming platforms — including Amazon, Alphabet-owned YouTube, Meta ...

The FTC says that all of these issues boil down to the profit models of the big social media and streaming companies. These business models mandate the “mass collection of user data to monetize ...

A new FTC report on how social media and streaming sites collect and monetize their hoards of user data doesn’t really feature a lot of surprises for anyone who’s followed the space.

The FTC has issued a damning new report on the data collection and use practices of 9 social media and streaming services. The Retail TouchPoints Network. Linkedin X-twitter Facebook Instagram Youtube ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — We all know that person who swore up and down their phone and social-media apps are listening to them. And no, the Federal Trade Commission is listening, too, releasing a ...

A Federal Trade Commission (FTC) staff report has found that social media and video streaming companies have been engaging in widespread user surveillance, particularly of children and teens, with ...

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 report lays out how social media and video streaming companies harvest an enormous amount of Americans' personal data and monetize it to the tune of billions of dollars a year," said FTC ...