The agency—which in December 2020 issued orders to nine companies that own the world’s biggest social-media and video-streaming platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Twitch ...

FTC staff pointed to social media algorithms ... we are a real-time communications platform with strong user privacy controls and no feeds for endless scrolling,” Sheerin noted.

"We are a real-time communications platform with strong user privacy controls and ... But the FTC' says the absence of federal regulation of social media platforms has given tech giants nearly ...

"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 ...

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. It's more ...

Instagram just made it mandatory for teen accounts to include parental controls. The FTC ... privacy legislation to limit surveillance and to offer “baseline protections.” It also wants social ...

Social media companies collect ... and other means, the FTC said. “While lucrative for the companies, these surveillance practices can endanger people’s privacy, threaten their freedoms ...

Companies such as Amazon, Meta and X Corp. employed vast consumer surveillance strategies to monetize user data without providing adequate privacy controls ... the biggest social-media and ...

The Federal Trade Commission said in a report that major social ... media companies and video streaming services engaged in vast consumer surveillance while failing to provide adequate privacy ...