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Amazon, TikTok, Facebook, Others Ordered To Explain What They Do With User Data
By Jaclyn Diaz
December 15, 2020
The Federal Trade Commission is demanding that nine social media and tech companies share details on how they harness users’ data and what they do with the information.
Amazon.com, TikTok owner ByteDance, Discord, Facebook, Reddit, Snap, Twitter, WhatsApp (also owned by Facebook) and YouTube were sent orders by the FTC on Monday to provide the commission with details on their data collection and advertising practices. The companies have 45 days to respond to the order.
Representatives for these companies didn’t immediately respond to NPR’s request for comment.
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Tue, Dec 15th 2020 9:33am
Mike Masnick
On Monday, the FTC announced that it was issuing what s known as 6(b) orders to nine social media and video streaming companies, demanding a fairly massive amount of information regarding their data collection and usage policies, as well as their advertising practices. To me, this is a huge missed opportunity. If the FTC is
truly trying to gain a better understanding of data collection, privacy, and advertising practices, perhaps to better inform Congress on how to, say, pass a truly comprehensive (and useful?!?) privacy legislation, then there are ways to do that. But this. is not that. This looks like a weird fishing expedition for a ton of unrelated information, from an odd selection of nine companies, many of whom are in a very different business than the others. It leaves me quite perplexed.
FTC seeks data collection information from Amazon, Facebook, TikTok and more
ABCNews The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Monday that it was issuing orders to nine companies including Amazon, Facebook and TikTok demanding more information about their data collection practices.
The FTC hit Amazon, ByteDance (operators of TikTok), Discord, Facebook, Reddit, Snap, Twitter, WhatsApp and YouTube with the orders that demand the companies provide information on how they use, collect and present personal information. The commission also seeks data on the companies advertising and user engagement practices, as well as how their practices impact children and teens.