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 ...
"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 ...
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.
Regulators know this is a nightmare and have done little to stop it. Privacy advocacy group wants that to change ...
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 ...
Some social media companies said that it was ... Inconsistency between privacy and companies’ business models The FTC mentioned that while companies were in the best position to implement ...
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 ...