The agency said the companies engaged in vast consumer surveillance while failing to provide adequate privacy controls or safeguards for children.

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 ...

A new FTC report on how social media and streaming sites collect and monetize their hoards of user data doesn't really feature a lot of surprises for anyone who's followed the space. The report ...

Social media companies collect, share and process vast troves of information about their users while offering little transparency or control, the FTC said.

The Federal Trade Commission said social media and streaming companies including YouTube, Amazon and Facebook fail to adequately protect consumer privacy.

The FTC just published results of a sweeping study of social media sites that has been going on for four years. The organization said that many social media sites and streaming services engage in ...

A Federal Trade Commission (FTC) staff report has found that social media and video streaming companies have been engaging in widespread user surveillance, particularly of children and teens, with ...

The consumer-protection agency said in a report that major social-media companies and video streaming services engaged in vast consumer surveillance while failing to provide adequate privacy ...