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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 ...
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 Federal Trade Commission released a report Thursday slamming social media platforms including ... The report stems from information the FTC ordered the largest social media and video streaming ...
The FTC identified three types of enforcement measures: self-regulation by the information collectors or an appointed regulatory body; private remedies that give civil causes of action for individuals whose information has been misused to sue violators; and government enforcement that can include civil and criminal penalties levied by the ...
According to Kelly Quinn, “the use of social media has become ubiquitous, with 73% of all U.S. adults using social network sites today and significantly higher levels of use among young adults and females." Social media sites have grown in popularity over the past decade, and they only continue to grow.
The FTC articulated that the purpose of the report was to protect the user privacy which is constantly exposed while surfing the Internet. In addition, the FTC discussed the Do Not Track mechanism and recommended browser vendors to enable users to control the level of personal information tracking by adopting an opt-out function.
Social media companies gather data through tracking technologies used in online advertising and buying information from data brokers, and other means, the FTC said.
It was introduced in the Senate alongside the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), which aimed to require social media companies from taking steps to protect minors from "harmful" information. Both KOSA and COPPA 2.0 passed the Senate as a package on a 91–3 vote on July 30, 2024. [ 19 ]