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FTC Says Social Media Platforms Engage in 'Vast Surveillance' of Users
A scathing new report takes aim directly at Big Tech and alleged violations of privacy.
And if you thought Big Tech was serious about calling for FTC Chair Lina Khan to be fired before, just wait until this report properly trickles through Silicon Valley today. The report notes that the amount of data collected by large tech companies is enormous, even using the words “simply staggering,” to describe how both users and non-users alike can be tracked in myriad ways. “The report lays out how social media and video streaming companies harvest an enormous amount of Americans’ personal data and monetize it to the tune of billions of dollars a year,” Lina Khan said in a statement published online.
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