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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The FTC accuses social media and streaming companies of failing to protect users from privacy intrusions and safeguard children and teens on their sites. It includes platforms such as YouTube ...

The FTC said the assessor "identified several gaps and weaknesses in Facebook's privacy program." The FTC also said Facebook, from late 2017 until 2019, "misrepresented that parents could control ...

The FTC on Wednesday proposed sweeping changes to a 2020 privacy order with Facebook — now called Meta — that would prohibit it from profiting from data it collects on users under 18.

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 ...

Social media companies collect, share and process vast troves of information about their users while offering little transparency or control, including over how it is used by systems incorporating ...

(Reuters) -Social media companies collect, share and process vast troves of information about their users while offering little transparency or control, including over how it is used by systems ...