The FTC in 2020 requested personal data from nine major streaming and social services, such as Amazon, ByteDance and YouTube. Findings revealed a concerning trend of data monitoring by these ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A new FTC report on how social media and streaming sites collect and monetize their hoards of user data doesn't really feature a lot of surprises for anyone who's followed the space. The report ...

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 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.

News FTC Commissioner's Social Media Statement Is a Heads-Up to Advertisers, Influencers Federal Trade Commissioner Rohit Chopra's statement last week that the FTC had voted to launch a "close and ...

All five FTC commissioners voted to adopt the final rule, which will go into effect 60 days after it is published in the Federal Register, the government's official catalog of rules and notices.

FTC's New Social Media Influencer Guidelines Bring 'Big But Unsurprising' Changes Among other things, the agency spelled out a new system for evaluating violations which keeps the targeted ...

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; ...