On Monday, Google, Amazon, ByteDance, Discord, Facebook (including WhatsApp), Reddit, Snap, Twitter, and YouTube were ordered by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to share detailed documentation about their data collection and processing operations, including algorithms, advertising information, and “each User Attribute that the Company uses, tracks, estimates, or derives.” FTC commissioners Rohit Chopra, Rebecca Slaughter, and Christine Wilson insisted in a statement justifying the order that “too much about the industry remains dangerously opaque.” The order, which follows the FTC’s lawsuit against Facebook last week, is part of a broader investigation into big tech’s business practices. Net Politics