The agency said the companies engaged in vast consumer surveillance while failing to provide adequate privacy controls or ...
The Federal Trade Commission said social media and streaming companies including YouTube, Amazon and Facebook fail to ...
On September 19, 2024, the FTC released a Staff Report on the data collection and data use practices of large social media ...
Social media companies gather data through tracking technologies used in online advertising and buying information from data ...
I'm an antitrust expert and former FTC general counsel. On September 19, 2024, the FTC voted 5-0 to release a staff report on the data collection and use practices of major social media and video ...
A recent report from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) highlights widespread surveillance practices by major social media ...
On September 19, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) released a long-awaited staff report, A Look Behind the Screens: Examining ...
"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 ...
Major social media and video streaming platforms are engaged in mass data collection and surveillance, putting people’s ...
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 ...
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 ...