FTC details how streaming services, social media have become ‘mass surveillance’ machines 

An FTC report based on data collected from nine major platforms found widespread “mass data collection” by social media and video-streaming services — including tracking of non-users and extensive profiling via pixels, third-party data brokers, and passive inferences — with inadequate safeguards for children and teens. The agency recommends limiting data collection and sharing, increasing transparency and user controls, and treating COPPA as a minimum standard, while the report has drawn industry pushback and comes amid related proposed U.S. privacy legislation.