The news: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reported that major social media platforms are engaging in “vast surveillance” of users and attempting to get around child safety protection laws.

The FTC’s 2024 study covers services owned by Amazon, Meta, YouTube, TikTok-owner ByteDance, X (formerly Twitter), Discord, Reddit, WhatsApp, and Snap.
The agency said that the problematic data collection and ad targeting practices it found are consistent across the companies and that inadequate guardrails encourage “ever-more invasive” data collection.

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