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 ...

Mobile apps and social media platforms now let companies gather much more fine-grained information about people at a lower ...

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 report ...

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 ...

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 ...

FTC chair targets advertising boycotts. Media Matters said it ramped up its reporting on Musk's social network after he bought Twitter and "began laying off key executives and content moderators ...

For the FTC to win its monopolization claim, brought under Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act, it must prove Meta monopolizes the personal social networking market and alleged monopolization ...

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 ...

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.