{"id":13266,"date":"2024-09-19T13:00:21","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=13266"},"modified":"2024-09-19T13:26:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T13:26:44","slug":"meta-tiktok-and-more-sites-engaged-in-vast-surveillance-a-new-ftc-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=13266","title":{"rendered":"Meta, TikTok and More Sites Engaged in \u2018Vast Surveillance,\u2019 a New FTC Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meta, YouTube and other sites collected more data than most users realized, a new report by the Federal Trade Commission finds.<\/p>\n

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The Federal Trade Commission said on Thursday it found that several social media and streaming services engaged in a \u201cvast surveillance\u201d of consumers, including minors, collecting and sharing more personal information than most users realized.<\/p>\n

The findings come from a study of how nine companies \u2014 including Meta, YouTube and TikTok \u2014 collected and used consumer data. The sites, which mostly offer free services, profited off the data by feeding it into advertising that targets specific users by demographics, according to the report. The companies also failed to protect users, especially children and teens.<\/p>\n

The F.T.C. said it began its study nearly four years ago to offer the first holistic look into the opaque business practices of some of the biggest online platforms that have created multibillion-dollar ad businesses using consumer data. The agency said the report showed the need <\/span>for federal privacy legislation and restrictions on how companies collect and use data.<\/p>\n

\u201cSurveillance practices can endanger people\u2019s privacy, threaten their freedoms, and expose them to a host of harms, from identify theft to stalking,\u201d said Lina Kahn, the F.T.C.\u2019s chair<\/a>, in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tech giants are under intense scrutiny for abuses of privacy<\/a> and have in recent years been blamed in part for contributing to a mental health crisis among young people and children that has been linked by some social scientists and the surgeon general<\/a> to the rampant use of social media and smartphones. But despite multiple proposals in Congress for stricter privacy and children\u2019s online safety protections, nearly all legislative attempts at regulating Big Tech have failed.<\/p>\n

Efforts by the companies to police themselves also haven\u2019t worked, the F.T.C. concluded in its report. \u201cSelf-regulation has been a failure,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n

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Meta, YouTube and other sites collected more data than most users realized, a new report by the Federal Trade Commission finds.The Federal Trade Commission said on Thursday it found that several social media and streaming services engaged in a \u201cvast surveillance\u201d of consumers, including minors, collecting and sharing more personal information than most users realized.The findings come from a study of how nine companies \u2014 including Meta, YouTube and TikTok \u2014 collected and used consumer data. The sites, which mostly offer free services, profited off the data by feeding it into advertising that targets specific users by demographics, according to the report. The companies also failed to protect users, especially children and teens.The F.T.C. said it began its study nearly four years ago to offer the first holistic look into the opaque business practices of some of the biggest online platforms that have created multibillion-dollar ad businesses using consumer data. The agency said the report showed the need for federal privacy legislation and restrictions on how companies collect and use data.\u201cSurveillance practices can endanger people\u2019s privacy, threaten their freedoms, and expose them to a host of harms, from identify theft to stalking,\u201d said Lina Kahn, the F.T.C.\u2019s chair, in a statement.Tech giants are under intense scrutiny for abuses of privacy and have in recent years been blamed in part for contributing to a mental health crisis among young people and children that has been linked by some social scientists and the surgeon general to the rampant use of social media and smartphones. But despite multiple proposals in Congress for stricter privacy and children\u2019s online safety protections, nearly all legislative attempts at regulating Big Tech have failed.Efforts by the companies to police themselves also haven\u2019t worked, the F.T.C. concluded in its report. \u201cSelf-regulation has been a failure,\u201d it added.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13268,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13269,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13266\/revisions\/13269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}