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 ...

Yes, social media apps are spying on you, FTC confirms. Story by Daysia Tolentino • 5d. P opular social media platforms and video streaming services pose serious risks to user privacy, ...

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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 ...

An FTC report has accused social media companies of vast user surveillance. The report found that major social media platforms are collecting excessive amounts of user data and not doing enough to ...

Overall, the FTC’s data shows social media earned scammers more money in 2021 than any other method of reaching people. There’s a lot for scammers to like about social media, the agency stated.

The companies that receive the orders have 45 days to explain to the FTC: How social media and video streaming services collect, use, track, estimate, or derive personal and demographic information; ...

The FTC said that investment, romance and e-commerce scams, combined, accounted for 70% of social media scams in 2021, but there were other types of fraud also associated with social platforms.

"The data suggest that social media was far more profitable to scammers in 2021 than any other method of reaching people," the FTC said in a blog post. Scams starting on social media have risen ...

The FTC’s Bedoya echoed those concerns, saying he has “a hard time seeing how” laws to block teens from accessing social media “would survive First Amendment scrutiny. ...

Last year was a bad one for scams that took place over social media. On Jan. 25, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a data spotlight report that claimed that consumers lost around $770 ...