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

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 Federal Trade Commission rebuked social media and streaming companies including YouTube, Amazon and Facebook on Thursday, accusing them of failing to adequately protect users from 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 ...

The FTC accuses social media and streaming companies of failing to protect users from privacy intrusions and safeguard children and teens on their sites. It includes platforms such as YouTube ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — We all know that person who swore up and down their phone and social-media apps are listening to them. And no, the Federal Trade Commission is listening, too, releasing a ...

(Reuters) -Social media companies collect, share and process vast troves of information about their users while offering little transparency or control, including over how it is used by systems ...

The FTC says that all of these issues boil down to the profit models of the big social media and streaming companies. These business models mandate the “mass collection of user data to monetize ...

Social media companies collect, share and process vast troves of information about their users while offering little transparency or control, including over how it is used by systems incorporating ...