Social media platforms are engaging in “vast surveillance” of people online and failing to protect children, according to a ...
The Federal Trade Commission released a report Thursday slamming social media platforms including Facebook's parent company, ...
They're doing very little to protect the young ones from harmful content and are pushing back against legislation.
Social media companies collect, share and process vast troves of information about their users while offering little ...
A new FTC report is exposing tech giants like WhatsApp, Reddit, YouTube, and more for vast data collection and failing to ...
The Federal Trade Commission published a new report about the data collection policies of social media platforms and video ...
Social media companies gather data through tracking technologies used in online advertising and buying information from data ...
The agency said the companies engaged in vast consumer surveillance while failing to provide adequate privacy controls or ...
Popular social media platforms and video streaming services pose serious risks to user privacy, with children and teenagers ...
The report is in response to 6(b) orders issued in December 2020 to nine social media and video streaming sites.
Consumers do not understand how much privacy they are giving up, largely to facilitate targeted advertising, the Federal ...
YouTube, social media platform X, Snap, Discord and Reddit were also included in the FTC report, though its findings were ...