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 companies gather data through tracking technologies used in online advertising and buying information from data brokers, and other means, the FTC said.

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 controls or safeguards for children.