FTC report assails social networks’ privacy, safety practices
The Federal Trade Commission said social media and streaming companies including YouTube, Amazon and Facebook fail to ...
FTC Decries Social Media Platforms' 'Vast Surveillance' of Users
Consumers do not understand how much privacy they are giving up, largely to facilitate targeted advertising, the Federal ...
FTC Urges Congress to Pass Comprehensive Privacy Legislation
While lucrative for the companies, these surveillance practices can endanger people’s privacy, threaten their freedoms, and ...
The Hill on MSN19h
FTC says social networks’ data privacy, safety policies are ‘woefully inadequate’
FTC staff pointed to social media algorithms, which may push harmful content such as dangerous online challenges that can prompt negative health consequences for children and teens, as a particular ...
Big tech companies engage in "vast surveillance" of users, FTC says
FTC Chair Lina Khan says tech giants such as Meta and Google "endanger people's privacy" and "expose them to a host of harms.
Social media platforms engaged in ‘vast surveillance’ and failed to protect young people, FTC finds
The Federal Trade Commission released a report Thursday slamming social media platforms including Facebook's parent company, ...
JD Supra13d
FTC Staff Report on MLM Income Disclosures: Many Observations Lead to Many Questions
Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission issued a staff report documenting its review of 70 publicly available income ...
Scioto Valley Guardian22h
FTC report exposes data practices of major social media giants
A new report from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) staff examines the data practices of major social media and video ...
Computerworld22d
Court handcuffs employees with non-compete agreements — again
So, when the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) banned non-compete agreements, I, and a few million employees, were pleased as punch. That happiness was brief. Before the ban could even take effect ...
Yahoo News14h
FTC report on predatory social media data hoarding hints at future regulations
A new FTC report on how social media and streaming sites collect and monetize their hoards of user data doesn't really ...
The Atlantic24d
The Last-Minute Curveball for a Big FTC Ban
In the early days of 2023, the Federal Trade Commission made a big announcement ... argue that they are valuable as a way to keep employees from poaching their client lists, to make sure that ...
Ars Technica15d
FTC urged to make smart devices say how long they will be supported
Consumer groups are urging the Federal Trade Commission to get involved. In a letter sent today to Samuel Levine, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, and Serena Viswanathan ...