The agency said the companies engaged in vast consumer surveillance while failing to provide adequate privacy controls or safeguards for children.

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

Social Media Users Can’t Control What AI Does With Their Data, FTC Says Data privacy, particularly for kids and teens, continues to be a hot-button issue.

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...