F.T.C. Study Finds ‘Vast Surveillance’ of Social Media Users
Meta, YouTube and other sites collected more data than most users realized, a new report by the Federal Trade Commission finds.
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, Meta, as well as TikTok, Google-owned YouTube, Snap and other online services over privacy and youth safety concerns.
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 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.
FTC: Social Media Sites Are 'Vast Surveillance' Operations
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.
FTC report finds 'vast surveillance' of users on social media apps
The report by the Federal Trade Commission claims social media and video platforms collect troves of personal information from activity across the internet for use in targeted advertising.
The man quietly rewriting American privacy law
Lobbyist Andrew Kingman has reshaped American policy on a key tech issue — without ever setting foot on Capitol Hill.
Red states ask court to reject Google privacy settlement
A group of Republican-led states have asked a U.S. appeals court to reject a $62 million consumer privacy settlement with ...
The Denver Post1d
Privacy Policy - The Denver Post
Whenever we collect information about you, we will make an effort to link to our privacy policy. How is my information used? Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you ...
LinkedIn is using your data to train generative AI models. Here's how to opt out.
The data collected for the Generative AI Improvement program is used to “improve or develop the LinkedIn services,” LinkedIn ...
LinkedIn is using your data to train AI. Here’s how to stop it
LinkedIn confirmed that it is using personal user data to train its artificial intelligence models after being accused of opting members in without properly notifying them.
I compared two of the most popular VPNs to see which is worth it
NordVPN and Proton VPN go head-to-head in my hands-on comparison to find out which privacy and video stream unblocking ...
Data broker statistics and trends
Data brokering is a global and rapidly growing industry, expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate of 7.58%, ...
LinkedIn silently opts users into AI model training, raises privacy concerns
LinkedIn has come under fire for automatically opting its users into a program that uses their data for training generative ...
Foreign Policy5d
The Questions Harris and Trump Still Need to Be Asked
Now that the U.S. presidential debate is behind us—thank goodness—the press gaggle following the Harris and Trump campaigns ...
LinkedIn updates privacy policy to allow AI training on users’ personal data; know how to opt out
LinkedIn has been scraping users’ personal data to train AI models without making necessary changes to its privacy policy at ...
The Hill on MSN3d
FTC says social networks’ data privacy, safety policies are ‘woefully inadequate’
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 ...