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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 ...
The deal is the culmination of a years' long probe into whether Facebook violated a previously agreement with the FTC over user privacy after it revealed, on the heels of an explosive newspaper ...
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.
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 ...
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 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 ...
Millions of Facebook users can now claim settlement money 03:20. U.S. regulators say Facebook misled parents and failed to protect the privacy of children using its Messenger Kids app, including ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...