By Aaron Nicodemus2020-12-15T22:16:00+00:00
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a broad and wide-ranging request to nine social media companies and video streaming services for information about how they collect and use the personal information of their users, how they sell that information to advertisers, and how the practices affect children and teens.
The nine companies receiving Monday’s request Amazon.com, ByteDance (which owns TikTok), Discord, Facebook, Reddit, Snap, Twitter, WhatsApp, and YouTube have been given 45 days to comply.
The business models of these nine digital companies have shifted over time “from supporting users’ activities to monetizing them,” wrote FTC Commissioners Rohit Chopra, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, and Christine Wilson in a statement supporting the requests.
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Dec 16, 2020 8:52 AM PT
A demand for a massive amount of data from nine technology companies including Facebook and Twitter has been made by the Federal Trade Commission in what could be a prelude to regulation on the handling data by the industry.
The demand made Monday by the FTC seeks to obtain information on how many users the companies have, how active the users are, what the companies know about them, how they got that information, and what steps the companies take to continue to engage users.
The agency also wants to know how social media and video streaming companies process the data they collect and what kinds of inferences they are able to make about user attributes, interest and interactions.
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The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued orders for nine social media and video streaming companies, requiring them ‘to provide data on how they collect, use, and present personal information; their advertising and user engagement practices, and how their practices affect children and teens’. AFP
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