The findings were based on answers to orders sent in late 2020 to companies including Meta, YouTube, Snap, Twitch-owner Amazon, TikTok parent company ByteDance, and X, formerly known as Twitter. — Photo by Berke Citak on Unsplash
SAN FRANCISCO: A years-long analysis shows that social media titans engaged in “vast surveillance” to make money from people's personal information, according to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
A report based on queries launched nearly four years ago aimed at nine companies found they collected troves of data, sometimes through data brokers, and could indefinitely retain the information collected about users and non-users of their platforms.
