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 ...

Top social media and video streaming companies are facing new scrutiny from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which released a report Thursday morning accusing the platforms of vastly violating ...

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 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 ...

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

Social media companies collect, share and process vast troves of information about their users while offering little transparency or control, the FTC said. Data privacy, particularly for kids and ...

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 ...

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.