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.

On September 19, 2024, the FTC released a Staff Report on the data collection and data use practices of large social media ...

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." ...

"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 ...

Regulators know this is a nightmare and have done little to stop it. Privacy advocacy group wants that to change ...

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 ...

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 ...