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Social media companies engaged in 'vast surveillance,' FTC finds, calling status quo 'unacceptable'
Popular social media platforms and video streaming services pose serious risks to user privacy, with children and teenagers most at risk, the Federal Trade Commission found in a report published Thursday.
Sweeping FTC study finds that social media sites engage in ‘vast surveillance’ of its users
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 “vast surveillance of consumers in order to monetize their personal information.
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In a strongly worded report, the FTC finds Facebook, TikTok, X, and others 'indefinitely retain troves of data' on the public, even if you do not have an account, and fail to protect kids and teens.
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Meta, YouTube and other sites collected more data than most users realized, a new report by the Federal Trade Commission finds.
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