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 ...
Regulators know this is a nightmare and have done little to stop it. Privacy advocacy group wants that to change ...
On September 19, 2024, the FTC released a Staff Report on the data collection and data use practices of large social media ...
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.
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 ...
A new FTC report highlights how social media and video streaming giants harvest ... "engage in broad data sharing" with data handling controls and practices being referred to as "woefully inadequate." ...
An FTC report has accused social media companies of vast user surveillance ... can collect and how long they can keep it, clearer privacy controls for users, and stronger protections for children.
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
