US FTC slams Meta, TikTok and Twitch
US FTC slams Meta, TikTok and Twitch for ‘woefully inadequate’ data policies
YouTube, social media platform X, Snap, Discord and Reddit were also included in the FTC report Social media companies collect, share and process vast troves of information about their users while offering little transparency or control,
Meta, TikTok, Twitch, and other social media platform users lack control over data used by AI: U.S. FTC
Social media companies collect, share and process vast troves of information about their users while offering little transparency or control, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said.
FTC Says Social Media Platforms Engage in ‘Vast Surveillance’ of Users
Social media platforms are engaging in “vast surveillance” of people online and failing to protect children, according to a new report from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. And if you thought Big Tech was serious about calling for FTC Chair Lina Khan to be fired before, just wait until this report properly trickles through Silicon Valley today.
FTC finds that social media, streaming giants engaged in ‘vast surveillance’ of users
The first issue that today’s report flags relates to the manner in which some tech giants collect user data. According to the FTC, certain market players use intrusive data collection methods such as tracking pixels. A tracking pixel is a code snippet that a company embeds into webpages to detect when consumers interact with them.
FTC calls for stronger regulation of social media data practices
The FTC report found that social media platforms, engage in extensive data surveillance to monetise personal information.
The FTC says social media companies can’t be trusted to regulate themselves
The Federal Trade Commission published a new report about the data collection policies of social media platforms and video streaming services, and the results are damning, if not unexpected. The report,
Social Media Users Can't Control What AI Does With Their Data, FTC Says
Social media companies gather data through tracking technologies used in online advertising and buying information from data brokers, and other means, the FTC said.
Social media platforms engaged in ‘vast surveillance’ and failed to protect young people, FTC finds
The Federal Trade Commission released a report Thursday slamming social media platforms including Facebook's parent company, ...
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Social media companies, video streaming services engage in "vast surveillance" of users, FTC says
Big tech companies also often claim not to know how many kids use their platforms, critics have noted. "This is not credible, ...
Meta, Amazon, YouTube’s Commercial Surveillance Flagged by FTC
The Federal Trade Commission called out the failure of Big Tech’s self-regulation, the ubiquity of commercial surveillance, ...
FTC report assails social networks’ privacy, safety practices
The Federal Trade Commission said social media and streaming companies including YouTube, Amazon and Facebook fail to ...
No Privacy For Profit's Sake: FTC Calls Out Amazon, Meta, Big Tech For Exposing Users To 'Host Of Harms'
Big tech is acting more like Big Brother. That’s according to the latest report from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The ...