The US FTC releases a four-year study of how Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and six others collected and used data, finding “vast surveillance” of consumers
Meta, YouTube and other sites collected more data than most users realized, a new report by the Federal Trade Commission finds.
New York Times Cecilia Kang
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Matt Pearce
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Michael Mulvihill
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A blistering new FTC report out this morning details long-standing practices of consumer surveillance and privacy abuses by streamers and social media companies. Essential reading and long overdue.
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Ed Markey
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The @FTC's expert report makes clear: Big Tech companies “bury their heads in the sand when it comes to children using their services.” COPPA 2.0 will stop this willful blindness. Let's pass this critical legislation.
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Thomas Brewster
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“FTC Staff Report Finds Large Social Media and Video Streaming Companies Have Engaged in Vast Surveillance of Users with Lax Privacy Controls and Inadequate Safeguards for Kids and Teens.” Well, duh. https://www.ftc.gov/...
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Jeffrey Chester
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Again & again, @linakhanFTC led FTC, with its on-point consumer protection division, peels back the commercial surveillance marketing apparatus which structures platforms & other US & global digital media. https://www.ftc.gov/...
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@wendyndavis
Wendy Davis
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@linakhanFTC blasts behavioral advertising, says it “helped drive the creation of a multi-billion dollar industry specializing in tracking and collecting vast amounts of Americans' personal data.” https://www.ftc.gov/... [image]
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Mike Swift
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Breaking: The @FTC has just published a bit of a #privacy bombshell in releasing their long-awaited 6(b) report on #socialmedia data collection practices, calling it “stunning” and “unacceptable.” The @MLex story is here: https://content.mlex.com/... [image]
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FTC staff report finds large social media and video streaming companies have engaged in vast surveillance of users with lax privacy controls and inadequate safeguards for kids and teens 1/ https://www.ftc.gov/...