Consumers do not understand how much privacy they are giving up, largely to facilitate targeted advertising, the Federal Trade Commission said in a report on the data practices of social media and video streaming companies.

A new report from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has found that many social media platforms are engaging in “mass surveillance”, particularly with younger users.  This FTC report stems from responses to 6(b) orders issued in December 2020 to nine leading social media and video streaming companies,

The Federal Trade Commission published a new report about the data collection policies of social media platforms and video streaming services, and the results are damning, if not unexpected. The report,