The agency said the companies engaged in vast consumer surveillance while failing to provide adequate privacy controls or safeguards for children. Findings are based on responses to 2020 orders to ...

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 ...

The deal is the culmination of a years' long probe into whether Facebook violated a previously agreement with the FTC over user privacy after it revealed, on the heels of an explosive newspaper ...

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 ...

On December 14, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced in a press release that it is issuing orders under the FTC’s authority in Section ...

Data privacy, particularly for kids and teens, has been a hot-button issue. The House of Representatives is considering bills passed by the Senate in July aimed at addressing social media’s ...

As it closed out 2020, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent out requests to nine social media and video streaming companies asking them to provide ...

Companies such as Amazon, Meta and X Corp. employed vast consumer surveillance strategies to monetize user data without providing adequate privacy controls, including for children, according to ...

"The report lays out how social media and video streaming companies harvest an enormous amount of Americans' personal data and monetize it to the tune of billions of dollars a year," said FTC ...