A new FTC report highlights how social media and video streaming giants harvest 'vast' amounts of user data to fuel a multi-billion dollar targeted advertising industry. Some companies fail to ...

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 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 challenge of making sure that social media are "fair and balanced" is illustrated by a 2004 FTC complaint against Fox News. Two left-leaning advocacy groups claimed the news outlet's use of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The merger condition is a new strategy in the Republican-controlled FTC's fight against alleged advertising boycotts, which ...

Omnicom's $13.5 billion acquisition of rival Interpublic can move forward on the condition the new company does not enter ...

A federal appeals court vacated the Federal Trade Commission's Click to Cancel rule -- which was to go into effect next week ...

The FTC started investigating Media Matters last month over whether the organization had illegally colluded with other advertising advocacy groups to pinch off revenue from X, Musk’s social media ...

As Texans recover from devastating flash flooding, scammers are targeting generous donors with fake fundraising pleas. The ...