FTC ISSUES ORDERS TO SOCIAL MEDIA AND VIDEO STREAMING PLATFORMS IN REVIEW OF DATA COLLECTION PRACTICES

15.12.2020

The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) requires nine social media and video streaming companies, under section 6 of the FTC Act, 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.

The companies herein include Amazon.com, Inc., ByteDance Ltd., which operates the short video service TikTok, Discord Inc., Facebook, Inc., Reddit, Inc., Snap Inc., Twitter, Inc., WhatsApp Inc., and YouTube LLC.

The information required by the FTC is specifically related with briefly; how social media and video streaming services collect, use, track, estimate, or derive personal and demographic information; how they determine which ads and other content are shown to consumers; and whether they apply algorithms or data analytics to personal information.

The companies will have 45 days from the date they receive the order to respond. 

You can reach the press release here.

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